Posted on 11/09/2010 8:35:14 PM PST by kristinn
The Obama administration has decided to walk away from what it once touted as key deadlines in the Afghanistan war in an effort to de-emphasize the president's pledge that he would begin withdrawing U.S. forces in July 2011, administration and military officials said Tuesday.
The new policy will be on display next week during a NATO conference in Lisbon, Portugal, where the administration hopes to introduce a timeline that calls for the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan by 2014, according to three senior officials and others speaking anonymously as a matter of policy. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Afghan troops could provide their security by then.
The Pentagon also has decided not to announce specific dates for handing security responsibility for several Afghan provinces to local officials and instead intends to work out a more vague definition of transition...
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"During our assessments, we looked at if we continue to move forward at this pace, how long before we can fully transition to the Afghans? Of course, we are not going to fully transition to the Afghans by July 2011," one senior administration official said. "Right now, we think we can start in 2011 and fully transition sometime in 2014."
Another official said the administration also realized in contacts with Pakistani officials that the Pakistanis had concluded wrongly that July 2011 would mark the beginning of the end of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
That perception, one Pentagon adviser said, has persuaded Pakistan's military key to preventing Taliban sympathizers from infiltrating Afghanistan to continue to press for a political settlement instead of military action.
"This administration now understands that it cannot shift Pakistani approaches to safeguarding its interests in Afghanistan with this date being perceived as a walkaway date," the adviser said.
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Ok. I get it. You don’t like tv. But tv is not the root of all evil. In fact, I know for sure that tv is not the root of all evil.
Total mind control is not always achieved through watching tv. Really. Take a deep breath.
No kidding. Every Dhimmie in the Country would have spent election day curled in the fetal position in the closet sucking their thumbs.
+1 - Spot on -
That’s true, good post. The only thing helping is more and more people spending time on the internet instead of watching TV.
MSM: President Obama announced today that the date for withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan has been pushed back to 2014. Just so you don’t forget, it bears repeating that Afghanistan was an absolute quagmire of a war that our great leader unfairly inherited from the Bush Administration and Republican Congress. In other news, just who is this Aqua Buddha?!
They don’t keep us informed of troop casualties because we are getting hammered over there.
Mine does also and I have another there right now and it is one scary proposition.
the song is coming to an end
Mine does too. You would not believe the responses I get when people ask and I tell them....They look at me surprised and say....”Why? I thought Obama was bringing the troops home in July.” These are the same people that don’t realize we have troops in Iraq either.
I really feel for the parents of our soldiers. How can they sleep at night knowing a Kenyan mu$l!m is CIC? They must be going through hell.
And speaking of hell, barry...
Obama should be arrested and tried for treason for, among other things, giving aid and comfort to the enemy with his dumbass rules of engagement.
I agree that it was a foolish choice on the libs part but I dont think we should resort to their level with name-calling. The facts should be fully explored before any conclusions can be made and then we can meet thm with well articulated arguments.
Reality bites, doesn’t it, boy zer0?
...in an effort to de-emphasize the president's pledge that he would begin withdrawing U.S. forces in July 2011... the administration hopes to introduce a timeline that calls for the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan by 2014...
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