Home For Christmas!
Come on. That’s so old war. Here’s the Obama age take on the old wartime troop-rallying standby. No rush, guys, no decision before Thanksgiving. Fox.
President Obama will not announce a decision on his war strategy in Afghanistan before Thanksgiving, his aides told Fox News on Thursday.
The latest development on the fate of up to 40,000 U.S. troops came at the tail end of the president’s eight-day Asia trip.
For several weeks, Obama has been weighing whether to send as many as 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan as his top commander there, Gen. Stanley McChrystal has requested, or to scale back the war effort and focus on pursuing Al Qaeda in Pakistan as his political advisers, including Vice President Biden, have urged.
McChrystal has said that without the additional troops, the U.S. effort in Afghanistan would likely result in failure.
Sooner or later. Chill, general dude. It isn’t like the president doesn’t want to show the boys and girls over there that he cares. O on the front lines in that way old school war, Korea:
“You guys make a pretty good photo op,” the president reportedly joked with the 1,500 troops at Osan Air Base.
Topics: Afghanistan, Obama
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:38 am Comments (2) on Friday, November 20, 2009
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November 20th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Hmm. Whose advice to take? McChrystal or Biden? Mm, tough choice.
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My disgust for this president and his administration has already filled my digustic tank. I can’t generate any more, lest it overflow.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
The Asia trip — Thanksgiving — then fast forward to the top priority Obama vacation in Hawaii, which will throw us headlong into the holiday season, formerly known as Christmas, which is obviously no time to be announcing deployments. After fêting the New Year, of course, there will be the prep for Obama’s first anniversary gala, which will clearly require 24/7 attention to spin production. February will be devoted to reassessing the reassessment of the New! Improved! Afghan strategy in response to changing developments on the ground.
After March, it won’t matter any more, because we’ll all be coping with the joint Iran/Pak/NK EMP attack in our own ways.