Okay. But when I read things like this:
I wonder how the bleep that is going to get accomplished if McChrystal's requests are not met. And, IMHO, this all just sounds a little wishy washy, and incredibly unfair to all the men and women we have out there keeping the Taliban AT BAY. I fully understand the strategies you listed above, but I would like to believe that those are different, because they had knowledgeable leaders at the helm, who believed in what they were doing and why, and weren't so concerned about their own image.
In other words the president wants to play whack-a-mole with a strong military presence in Kabul but that is guaranteed to fail as soon as the talis push around enough provincials to win a general election. Either Obama concedes or he fights wars to allow any coalition except THAT coalition and he looks like a big phony.
This article is nothing but the beginning of the end. Surrender. Capitulation. Whatever you want to call it. It is unsustainable.
Ironically, Bush won Iraq before leaving office and the moral necessity of that war was always in doubt. Yet here comes Obama less than a year in office going French on a war even he called necessary.
It isn't as if the strategy is in doubt it is merely the will of the CinC to see it through.
