Administration Outlines Afghan War Endgame [Stunning Development!]

APReport ^ | December 01, 2009

[Steelfish]

Administration Outlines Afghan War Endgame Official: U.S. troops will start leaving region 'well before' end of first term

NBC News and news services

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over six months, an accelerated timetable — with an endgame built in — that would have the first Marines there as early as Christmas, a senior administration official told The Associated Press.

U.S. troops are expected to start leaving the region 'well before' the end of Obama's first term, the AP reported Tuesday. A senior government official told NBC contributor Col. Jack Jacobs that the president believes that a transition from American-led combat to Afghan leadership of the effort will begin in July 2011.

With the full complement of new troops expected to be in Afghanistan by next summer, the heightened pace of Obama's military deployment in the 8-year-old war appears to mimic the 2007 troop surge in Iraq, a 20,000-strong force addition under former President George W. Bush. Similar in strategy to that mission, Obama's Afghan surge aims to reverse gains by Taliban insurgents and to secure population centers in the volatile south and east parts of the country.

[b4its2late]

I see Quagmire in the future..... and not the one from Family Guy....

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[PapaBear3625]

We’re going to have a huge number of troops there, whose supply lines run through Pakistan. I see future problems with this.

[Spok]

“U.S. troops are expected to start leaving the region ‘well before’ the end of Obama’s first term, the AP reported Tuesday.”

Looks like the MSM is conceding that it’s all about politics and the ‘bama not wanting to be a one termer. Very revealing.

[happilymarriedmom]

I get the feeling that every decision Obama makes is based on whether it will help him get relected or not. Maybe that is normal for a 1st term president but either way, I don't feel comfortable with anything he's doing just for that reason.

[McGruff]

U.S. troops are expected to start leaving the region ‘well before’ the end of Obama’s first term

sounds like

President Clinton said U.S. troops would be out of Yugoslavia by Christmas 1999

[b4its2late]

Good point.

[SeanOGuano]

Giggity!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

A senior government official told NBC contributor Col. Jack Jacobs that the president believes that a transition from American-led combat to Afghan leadership of the effort will begin in July 2011.

Obama's about to find out that the fortunes of war do not neatly comply with political timelines.

[Perdogg]

ping

[himno hero]

Its a stunned development....
O sends in THIRTY THOUSAND troops into harms way under a catch and release program...Fat lips? you get court martialed. And you cant point guns at suspects...

There is no real support in the big white house as he doesnt want to see his brothers in the nation harmed. Pakistan? The ISI are a wing of al quada and there is a huge problem... yet he pumps a shitload of cash in there to fight ourselves.

It is an upside down world but what do you expect from the great destroyer of America, a marxist muslim president?

[Perdogg]

By 2011, 0bama will start to triangulate.

[Deo volente]

Great. Tell your enemy when you’re leaving, so he can just lie low and wait it out.

Now THAT’s some military strategy for you!

/sarc

[Dr. Eckleburg]

And here we thought he was Carter when he was actually LBJ in drag all along.

God help us.

[G8 Diplomat]

There goes Afghanistan

[savedbygrace]

This is a political decision based almost entirely on political calculations. There is very little military calculation in it at all.

[rockinqsranch]

Obama has given me ulcers.

I’m sick of the SOB.

[1000 silverlings]

LBJ in drag all along.

lol

[anglian]

“catch and release program...Fat lips?” Never UnderEstimate the tactics motives of this man and MSM. EVERYTHING IS A DICTRACTION AND DIVERSION. Including the leaks.