Obama & Company Forgot That They Told Afghanistan Commander To Defeat The Enemy

Flopping Aces ^ | 12-06-09 | Curt

[Starman417]

Obama told us throughout the 2008 campaign that Afghanistan was the war we should be fighting. The conflict where we supposedly took our eyes off the ball (even though Bush handed control over to NATO long ago, as the left wanted) and the conflict where most of our resources should go to. So he becomes President and nominated McChrystal to head it up and sent over 21,000 more troops.

He then told McChrystal that his mission was to destroy the Taliban.

Then he forgot all about Afghanistan as he pursued his Socialist utopian dreams onto this country.

Well, McChrystal took that mission he was given seriously....but apparently shouldn't have:

In June, McChrystal noted, he had arrived in Afghanistan and set about fulfilling his assignment. His lean face, hovering on the screen at the end of the table, was replaced by a mission statement on a PowerPoint slide: “Defeat the Taliban. Secure the Population.”

“Is that really what you think your mission is?” one of the participants asked.

In the first place, it was impossible — the Taliban were part of the fabric of the Pashtun belt of southern Afghanistan, culturally if not ideologically supported by a major part of the population. “We don’t need to do that,” Gates said, according to one participant. “That’s an open-ended, forever commitment.”

But that was precisely his mission, McChrystal responded, enshrined in the Strategic Implementation Plan — the execution orders for the March strategy, written by the NSC staff.

“I wouldn’t say there was quite a ‘whoa’ moment,” a senior defense official said of the reaction around the table. “It was just sort of a recognition that, ‘Duh, that’s what in effect the commander understands he’s been told to do.’ Everybody said, ‘He’s right.’”

[Cobra64]

[discipler]

Can you say McNamara, Johnson, and Vietnam?

[FReepaholic]

...Can you say McNamara, Johnson, and Vietnam?...

What is it with Democrats? They loathe the military and don't want to have anything to do with them yet when they get in office they think they can run the show.