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Headed Towards Defeat In Afghanistan
The Obama administration is headed down the irrevocable path to defeat in Afghanistan, and appears to be waving the white flag in the global 'war on terror.'
It has now been more than seven long weeks since the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley A. McChrystal, reported on the desperate need for more troops in Afghanistan, warning that defeating the insurgents will not be possible if the United States fails to "gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum" over the next 12 months.
McChrystal's confidential report was leaked to the Washington Post on September 21, 2009. It was met with silence from the White House. Well, not quite... On October 4, nearly two dozen House liberals introduced a bill that would prohibit an increase of troops in Afghanistan. And the Senate rejected an attempt to have the top commander in Afghanistan testify about the increasingly volatile situation.
As our public servants worked feverishly behind the scenes to deny support to our fighting men in Afghanistan, hundreds of terrorists armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight U.S. soldiers and capturing more than 20 Afghan security troops in the deadliest assault against U.S. forces in more than a year.
Following this attack, U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates stated that the Taliban now have the momentum in Afghanistan "because of the inability of the United States and its allies to put enough troops into the country."
Our President was otherwise occupied accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. The mainstream media was so excited that they kinda forgot to report Gate's dire warning. 24/7 media coverage of the latest Messiah of Peace was followed by news of the exciting Michelle Obama 'action figure.' And the President's exciting 'date night' with Michelle.
Continuing to ignore the worsening situation in Afghanistan, President Obama and the First Lady instead rolled out the red carpet while a group handed out white coats to a select group of doctors, in a staged photo-op designed to further Obama's proposed health care reform. In his televised speech, Obama expressed deep concern for the health of any Americans that aren't covered by government health care, and trotted out several heartbreaking stories to prove it. These stories were later proven false.
Meanwhile, our State Department addressed the terrorist problem. They just renamed terrorists "refugees."
Obama remained extremely busy in October, making a trip to Copenhagen to lobby for the Olympics to be held in his hometown of Chicago, and appearing on the Letterman Show. But he did take the time to stage a nice little photo-op with a midnight trip to Dover Airfield, along with photographers, to show the nation his concern for our returning war dead. (Concern that was sorely lacking for the victims of the recent Fort Hood massacre)
At the end of this busy month, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs informed the nation that Obama has spent "close to 20 direct hours" in meetings on Afghanistan since Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for tens of thousands of reinforcements was submitted over two months ago.
Gibbs went on to say that Obama also spends "quite a bit of time" thinking about the war in Afghanistan, after it was revealed that Obama had spent more time with Oprah than with General McChrystal.
Our NATO allies saw that Obama was busy waging war on Fox News and the Chamber of Commerce instead of sending reinforcements to our brave warriors who are fighting and dying in Afghanistan, and started following his cue.
On November 6, Canada’s top general issued instructions for his officers to start making their plans to pull out of Afghanistan.
The UK is also drawing up plans to withdraw British troops from outlying bases in Afghanistan. And the United Nations has relocated 600 of their Afghan staff out of harms way.
The media remains silent on this shocking abrogation of leadership, reporting only that Obama is considering his options and weighing them, as a good President should. The New York Times now reports Obama's decision may not come until December. Meanwhile, the Taliban grow increasingly powerful and our young men in Afghanistan are left wondering if their sacrifice, and their comrades lives, have been in vain.
Americans are assumed to have forgotten that Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to reinforce U.S. troops in Afghanistan, which he described as a war we “have to win.” I guess he's changed his mind.
To my nephew Christopher, and all our brave young men in Afghanistan, I'd like to say on behalf of most Americans, that I'm so very sorry your lives are being used as political fodder. And unlike Obama, most Americans support you and will keep raising their voices in outrage at the shameless lack of support and leadership being shown by your Commander in Chief.
Nancy Morgan is a columnist and news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina
It has now been more than seven long weeks since the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley A. McChrystal, reported on the desperate need for more troops in Afghanistan, warning that defeating the insurgents will not be possible if the United States fails to "gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum" over the next 12 months.
McChrystal's confidential report was leaked to the Washington Post on September 21, 2009. It was met with silence from the White House. Well, not quite... On October 4, nearly two dozen House liberals introduced a bill that would prohibit an increase of troops in Afghanistan. And the Senate rejected an attempt to have the top commander in Afghanistan testify about the increasingly volatile situation.
As our public servants worked feverishly behind the scenes to deny support to our fighting men in Afghanistan, hundreds of terrorists armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight U.S. soldiers and capturing more than 20 Afghan security troops in the deadliest assault against U.S. forces in more than a year.
Following this attack, U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates stated that the Taliban now have the momentum in Afghanistan "because of the inability of the United States and its allies to put enough troops into the country."
Our President was otherwise occupied accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. The mainstream media was so excited that they kinda forgot to report Gate's dire warning. 24/7 media coverage of the latest Messiah of Peace was followed by news of the exciting Michelle Obama 'action figure.' And the President's exciting 'date night' with Michelle.
Continuing to ignore the worsening situation in Afghanistan, President Obama and the First Lady instead rolled out the red carpet while a group handed out white coats to a select group of doctors, in a staged photo-op designed to further Obama's proposed health care reform. In his televised speech, Obama expressed deep concern for the health of any Americans that aren't covered by government health care, and trotted out several heartbreaking stories to prove it. These stories were later proven false.
Meanwhile, our State Department addressed the terrorist problem. They just renamed terrorists "refugees."
Obama remained extremely busy in October, making a trip to Copenhagen to lobby for the Olympics to be held in his hometown of Chicago, and appearing on the Letterman Show. But he did take the time to stage a nice little photo-op with a midnight trip to Dover Airfield, along with photographers, to show the nation his concern for our returning war dead. (Concern that was sorely lacking for the victims of the recent Fort Hood massacre)
At the end of this busy month, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs informed the nation that Obama has spent "close to 20 direct hours" in meetings on Afghanistan since Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for tens of thousands of reinforcements was submitted over two months ago.
Gibbs went on to say that Obama also spends "quite a bit of time" thinking about the war in Afghanistan, after it was revealed that Obama had spent more time with Oprah than with General McChrystal.
Our NATO allies saw that Obama was busy waging war on Fox News and the Chamber of Commerce instead of sending reinforcements to our brave warriors who are fighting and dying in Afghanistan, and started following his cue.
On November 6, Canada’s top general issued instructions for his officers to start making their plans to pull out of Afghanistan.
The UK is also drawing up plans to withdraw British troops from outlying bases in Afghanistan. And the United Nations has relocated 600 of their Afghan staff out of harms way.
The media remains silent on this shocking abrogation of leadership, reporting only that Obama is considering his options and weighing them, as a good President should. The New York Times now reports Obama's decision may not come until December. Meanwhile, the Taliban grow increasingly powerful and our young men in Afghanistan are left wondering if their sacrifice, and their comrades lives, have been in vain.
Americans are assumed to have forgotten that Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to reinforce U.S. troops in Afghanistan, which he described as a war we “have to win.” I guess he's changed his mind.
To my nephew Christopher, and all our brave young men in Afghanistan, I'd like to say on behalf of most Americans, that I'm so very sorry your lives are being used as political fodder. And unlike Obama, most Americans support you and will keep raising their voices in outrage at the shameless lack of support and leadership being shown by your Commander in Chief.
Nancy Morgan is a columnist and news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina
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Tags: Afghanistan, McChrystal, Obama, defeat
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Comment by Greg Wilson on November 18, 2009 at 8:55am
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BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview with CNN on Wednesday he is "very close" to a decision on boosting troop levels in Afghanistan and would make an announcement "in the next several weeks."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091118/pl_nm/us_afghanistan_obama
Successor?? Next several weeks?? And the soldier?? Pfftt....
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Spot on Nancy, spot on.
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Comment by Daniel Blattenbauer on November 12, 2009 at 9:11am
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As a disabled veteran of the VietNam Era, I am very happy that we now have a Commander-in-Chief who actually is putting some thought into introducing even more troops into a country to prop up a government that is so corrupt. We do not need to sacrifice many thousands of troops as we did in Viet Nam before we can admit that we are in a war with no clear objectives and with no end in sight no matter how many troops we engage in Afghanistan.
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Comment by Drew Francis on November 11, 2009 at 8:26am
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Perhaps the answer is not from 'without'. Perhaps the answer lies within the Jihadists and within Afghanistan. It stands to reason that, as Hanna Arendt points out in "ON REVOLUTION" , what distinguishes modern revolutions is that they exhibit (albeit fleetingly) the procedures of fundamental political structures – that of individuals acting together, on the basis of their mutually agreed common purposes, in order to establish a structure in a broadly constructed space that is a definition of freedom for them. The attempt to establish a public and institutional space of freedom and participation marks out these revolutionary moments as examples of engagement politics, regardless of whether we 'agree' with their construct of 'freedom'. Collective existence on a global level is probably impossible. Any new act defies our understandings and interpretations because there is no basis for judgement or comparison. The problems facing the Obama administration (likewise the entire global community) is that the framework for judgement regarding "Afghanistan" is faulty because there is no comparison in which to judge the motives or directions of the 'perceived enemy'. The solution for Afghanistan is within the problem that has arisen, not from the struggle the US and others have to try to maintain their own vested interests.
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Comment by Bull on November 11, 2009 at 7:45am
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First lets not forget had the previous administration not started another unnecessary war this one may have been taken care of.
Please take care to publish facts
Now for facts.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/13/obama-afghanistan-troop...
President Barack Obama is quietly deploying an extra 13,000 troops to Afghanistan, an unannounced move that is separate from a request by the US commander in the country for even more reinforcements.
The extra 13,000 is part of a gradual shift in priority since Obama became president away from Iraq to Afghanistan.
The White House and the Pentagon both announced earlier this year that the number of US troops in Afghanistan was to be raised by 21,000, bringing the total at present to 62,000, with the aim of 68,000 by the end of the year.
But the Washington Post, based on conversations with Pentagon officials, said that on top of those an extra 13,000 "enablers" are also being deployed. They are mainly engineers, medical staff, intelligence officers and military police. About 3,000 of them are specialists in explosives, being sent to try to combat the growing fatality rate from roadside bombs.
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