Is that what YOU WANT YOUR SON or DAUGHTER to die for, America?
To "BUY TIME?"
So WAR LOOTERS and DRUG DEALERS can get rich?
Related: Why Obama Doesn't Want to Talk About Afghanistan
Is it going to be WORTH IT, America?
"US commander warns change needed in Afghanistan tactics" by Gregory Katz, Associated Press | October 2, 2009
LONDON - US General Stanley McChrystal called yesterday for a dramatic change in tactics in the faltering war against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan and said it would be wrong to lower military goals there, despite recent setbacks.
Warning that time is running out as the insurgency gathers strength, he said there is a “huge risk’’ Al Qaeda terrorists will again find safe haven in Afghanistan unless new tactics are put in place in the near future.
McChrystal, commander of both the US and NATO war effort, said conventional military tactics have proved counterproductive and are costing coalition forces support among Afghan civilians who doubt whether the Americans will stay long enough to bring security.
Yeah, or WANT US TO LEAVE!
“We don’t win by destroying the Taliban,’’ he said. “We don’t win by body count. We don’t win by the number of successful military raids or attacks, we win when the people decide we win.’’
McChrystal is reported to be seeking an additional 40,000 US troops for Afghanistan and is lobbying European leaders to send more soldiers as well.
It is a hell of a lot more than that.
Oh, right, "is reported to be."
Now where is that salt shaker?
He said the rules of conventional warfare do not apply in Afghanistan, which has become a counterinsurgency campaign. The four-star general spoke to a group of British academics and security specialists at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, one day after taking part via video link in a White House Situation Room review of Afghan policy chaired by President Obama.
McChrystal has made waves in Washington and London with his downbeat assessment of the eight-year effort to keep Afghanistan from becoming - again - a safe haven for Taliban extremists and their Al Qaeda allies, who used it as a base while planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
I'm so sick of the bullshit shoveling, folks.
Once you know the truth about that inside job....
Asked by the audience if it would be sensible to lower America’s military goals and limit the war effort to eliminating the Al Qaeda presence, McChrystal said it would be wrong to give up on the idea of bringing some security to the Afghan population.....
What, NOTHING about the MOST RECENT AIRSTRIKE, MSM!?
Is that "security," Stan?
--more--""Bombing kills 2 US soldiers in Afghanistan; Obama meets with general" by Robert H. Reid, Associated Press | October 3, 2009
KABUL - Obama’s war council has been sharing differing opinions on whether the United States should send thousands more troops to tamp down the Taliban, or shift to a narrower focus on Al Qaeda in neighboring Pakistan.
I will bet they DO BOTH!
The Copenhagen meeting was an extension of those war council sessions....
Hours after Obama and General Stanley McChrystal met, the Pentagon said that the general’s official request for more troops for the war will not be sent to the White House until next week at the earliest. At issue is Obama’s looming decision to stick with the current mission in Afghanistan - which could require adding as many as 40,000 additional US troops - or scale back the military option and expand operations targeting terrorists in Pakistan....
Without citing numbers publicly, McChrystal has said more troops are needed to “buy time’’
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The president had long been expected to approve McChrystal’s plan to mount a military push against the Taliban in Afghanistan. But waning public support for the war and concern about his top commanders’ call for as many as 40,000 more US troops has exposed emerging fault lines inside the White House. It’s possible that Obama will decide on a hybrid strategy that keeps in place the 68,000 US combat troops who are already in Afghanistan, while adding more military trainers and ramping up strikes on Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan....
Told you!
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