Barack Obama's war: the final push in Afghanistan

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

In June, McChrystal noted, he had arrived in Afghanistan and set about fulfilling his assignment. His lean face, hovering on the screen at the end of the table, was replaced by a mission statement on a PowerPoint slide: “Defeat the Taliban. Secure the Population.”

“Is that really what you think your mission is?” one of the participants asked.

In the first place, it was impossible — the Taliban were part of the fabric of the Pashtun belt of southern Afghanistan, culturally if not ideologically supported by a major part of the population. “We don’t need to do that,” Gates said, according to one participant. “That’s an open-ended, forever commitment.”

But that was precisely his mission, McChrystal responded, enshrined in the Strategic Implementation Plan — the execution orders for the March strategy, written by the NSC staff.

“I wouldn’t say there was quite a ‘whoa’ moment,” a senior defense official said of the reaction around the table. “It was just sort of a recognition that, ‘Duh, that’s what in effect the commander understands he’s been told to do.’ Everybody said, ‘He’s right.’”

“It was clear that Stan took a very literal interpretation of the intent” of the NSC document, said Jones, who had signed the orders himself. “I’m not sure that in his position I wouldn’t have done the same thing, as a military commander.” But what he created in his assessment “was obviously something much bigger, and more longer-lasting . . . than we had intended.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/05/AR2009120501376_pf.html



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[Peter3_1]

Don't know what religion Obama is, if any. He clearly is not Cheristian, as Black Liberation theology is not a CHRISTIAN RELIGION.  Suspect he is a religion  ontoo himself.

http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2006/05/narcissistic-synthesis-sometimes-you.html

Scroll down to the Chart and see if there is someone you know there.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Don't know what religion Obama is, if any. He clearly is not Cheristian, as Black Liberation theology is not a CHRISTIAN RELIGION.  Suspect he is a religion  ontoo himself.

http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2006/05/narcissistic-synthesis-sometimes-you.html

Scroll down to the Chart and see if there is someone you know there.

First Church of Christ Obamist.  He and the flock believe Obama is the Second Coming.

[Eupher]

And the lame stream media are decidedly quiet about Obama's non-attendance at worship services.

I guess he ordered his prayer rug and his Qu'ran online via his Crackbarry. It's safer that way than to actually be photographed going into a mosque armed with those things.

More to the topic at hand, if the NSC can't even articulate a mission that is doable, McChrystal is ****ed.