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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on October 01, 2009, 04:32:04 PM
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President Obama yesterday met with his top advisers to discuss Afghanistan policy and afterwards word leaked out that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appears to be wavering on going forward with the Obama Administration’s new strategy for Afghanistan. Yochi Dreazen reported in the Wall Street Journal today that Gates, who has supported the counterinsurgency approach in the past, “now worries that counterinsurgency might no longer be a viable approach for countering the Taliban violence roiling once-stable parts of north and west Afghanistan.†This is yet another sign that the Obama Administration may be backpedaling away from the counterinsurgency-based Afghanistan strategy which it unveiled last March.
If Gates now is turning against the recommendations of the administration’s hand-picked commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, then it appears that advocates of a minimalist “small footprint†strategy may win the internal debate within the administration. This would be a potentially disastrous outcome that would demoralize America’s Afghan allies, prompt Afghans sitting on the fence to come down on the side of the insurgents, and further energize the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and other anti-American forces in the region. Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow Lisa Curtis has warned that such an outcome would raise the future risks of a terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland. Heritage Foundation Senior Research Fellow James Phillips has noted that the minimalist counterterrorism strategy already has been tried and failed miserably in Afghanistan, as well as in Iraq. It would therefore be a costly mistake if General McChrystal’s new Afghanistan strategy is defeated in Washington before it can be implemented in Afghanistan.
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/01/secretary-of-defense-gates-backpedaling-on-afghanistan/
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Why is he now trying to screw our soldiers WTF!!!
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Why is he now trying to screw our soldiers WTF!!!
I wouldn't be so sure that Chicago Style, (read thuggery) politics aren't being brought to bear on Gates. Maybe he is being pressured by the administration into backing away from more troops, which would give Lord Zero cover for drawing down the troops, since most polls are showing that is what the leftists want.
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I wouldn't be so sure that Chicago Style, (read thuggery) politics aren't being brought to bear on Gates. Maybe he is being pressured by the administration into backing away from more troops, which would give Lord Zero cover for drawing down the troops, since most polls are showing that is what the leftists want.
S we can put more pressure on the ones over there and worry the ones that are yet to go :censored:
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"That Boy" ain't fit to led a girl scout troop much less be C-N-C.
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"That Boy" ain't fit to led a girl scout troop much less be C-N-C.
I was thinking more on the lines he isn't fit to lead my dog to his water dish but that is just me
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I sure am glad that I'm not in the middle of an Afghanistan tour right now.
:banghead:
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I sure am glad that I'm not in the middle of an Afghanistan tour right now.
:banghead:
You could be like me and getting ready to head into a tour over there.
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You could be like me and getting ready to head into a tour over there.
Be safe it is a hot spot that is for sure
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Its clear that there isn't any defined plan of action and field commanders are on their own. :banghead:
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Or the ones over there have their hands tied behind their backs
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Looks like Gates is setting his self up for sacrifice when Obummers plan fails. You think the O man has ever heard of Neville Chamberlain with his policies on Iran and Afghanistan? I watched O'Reilly last night, he insinuated during his opening dialogue that Iran could lead to a World War, and it has a chance of doing that. Of course Our illustrious Pres. probably would stay neutral through it all.
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If Gates is bowing to political pressure then he needs to damn well resign.
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If Gates is bowing to political pressure then he needs to damn well resign.
Word on the street is that his replacement is already in the wings. Female deputy undersecretary with absolutely zero experience in DoD
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Word on the street is that his replacement is already in the wings. Female deputy undersecretary with absolutely zero experience in DoD
So you are saying that she is just as qualified to be SecDef as 0Bama is to be president?
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So you are saying that she is just as qualified to be SecDef as 0Bama is to be president?
Yup
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You could be like me and getting ready to head into a tour over there.
We both know it's duty first, my friend.
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Word on the street is that his replacement is already in the wings. Female deputy undersecretary with absolutely zero experience in DoD
Wonderful. Just freaking wonderful.
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We both know it's duty first, my friend.
Exactly. :cheersmate:
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Word on the street is that his replacement is already in the wings. Female deputy undersecretary with absolutely zero experience in DoD
Just like everyone else in his inner circle
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You could be like me and getting ready to head into a tour over there.
I just wanted to jump in on this thread quick to wish you a very safe tour. Take care over there.