Obama would have sent a handwritten note to the Germans warning them about the D-Day invasion had he been given the chance.
Posted on 12/01/2009 9:27:46 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Washington (CNN) -- President Obama intends to conclude the Afghanistan war and withdraw most U.S. troops within three years, according to senior administration officials.
Obama is sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and ordering military officials to get the reinforcements there within six months, White House officials told CNN Tuesday.
Obama will travel to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, later Tuesday to officially announce his plans. It would to be his second escalation of U.S. forces in the war-torn Islamic country since he came to power in January.
The president also is seeking further troop commitments from NATO allies as part of a counterinsurgency strategy aimed at wiping out al Qaeda elements and stabilizing the country while training Afghan forces.
The expected new troop deployment would increase the total U.S. commitment to roughly 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, bolstered by about 45,000 NATO forces.
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I wouldn't count on that. Oboma sees a victory as a failure. Why should they die for American liberalism?
So Obama’s plan is to
1)half-@$$edly support the general’s recommendation,
2)institute ROE’s that will guarantee that more troops will be killed for no reason and we will eventually lose heart and
3)then to cut and run just in time for the 2012 elections
4)blame George Bush.
For him, it will be. He won’t be in office any more than 3 years...at the latest!
did it take 6 months to trickle in troops for the Iraq surge?
A 6 month buildup does not sound like a “surge”. The word victory does not appear in any of his announced “strategy”
Geez, you’ve missed the point entirely!! It doesn’t matter if we can do it in 6 months with the extra troops. By using ANY sort of a date it allows the enemy to go home, lay low and KNOW the enemy is leaving on a date certain.
It is the STUPIDEST and most poorly thought out strategy imaginable. It was done for one reason, to appease his anti American base. he has all but guaranteed Afghanistan will become another Viet Nam.
This isn’t simply just ‘cut & run’. This will be ‘Lose first, then Cut & Run’.
But letting the Taliban/al Qaeda know exactly how long they need to lay low and rebuild in secret is an asinine plan. They will stockpile weapons and train, waiting until right before our next presidential election and then unleash holy hell on our retreating soldiers to declare victory. And they will be right.
Uh....he was probably trying to buy the guys vote with stimulous dollars before the meeting in Copenhagen. Oboma just isn't that deep.
I think the GOP ought to call for the generals to testify in front of congress like Petraeus did on Iraq
"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please" - Machiavelli"The quickest way to end a war is to lose it" - George Orwell
Withdraw the Rules of Engagement, go in there and bomb them back into the stone age, then we can safely pull out all of our troops in the next year.........hows that?
Just a theory. Both of your explanations make sense.
It’s hard for me to hold him to his campaign promises because it was so completely and utterly obvious to me that he was a liar and the truth was not in him and it really didn’t MATTER what he said, he would do just what he liked once he got in there.
FUBO.
Obama would have sent a handwritten note to the Germans warning them about the D-Day invasion had he been given the chance.
You don’t get a victory by dispatching 75% of the minimum the generals in the field say they need and putting a timeframe on the operation.
The problem is, it already is the stone age in Afghanistan. They never made it any farther. There’s no infrastructure, no loyalty, no national pride. Its a tribal nation with few educated citizens to raise up into leadership. Its an un-winnable war. We got Al-Qaeda and now its time to come home before more of our boys die under the new ROE.
And just to think. It took him 3 f’ing months to come up with this revelation!
I doubt if they even bother to lay low. This just gives them an idea of how long they have to last and when to start their major offensive.
That’s nice, but the next question is-—will Al Qaeda and the Taliban stop fighting in 3 years?
maybe we’d have it won in less than three years if this pathetic, disgusting POS would have sent the General what he asked for when he asked for it.
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