In March, however, it was not clear to several of the participants that a significant addition of U.S. forces would be needed. Obama had only recently authorized the deployment of 17,000 more troops.

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That flies in the face of the commanders that in fhe all of 08 where asking for the same things for Afghanistan. BO is to little to late and cant make up his mind about southern fried food. Smart Jazz, you think he can make up his mind about life and death?

Nearly all spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about internal policy discussions.

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That kind of deep backround I thought went out of style with hopey and changey transparency.

Ya think if the Pakistani generals say nyet to the strings attached funding they’ll go back to selling technology?

The news account you mention, I take it that ‘they’ are the Pakistanis? People are looking the other way on other “stuff” when that crap happens. Not good.

However, it isn’t like the Taliban are lining up like the Redcoats…lol.

And the Gen already made the point in his report that negates your view. He stated that it is a ‘year-round struggle’ and not one with an ‘insurgent “fighting season”‘.

Time is important…and this winter shouldn’t be wasted prepping for spring.

Please f r e e m e !!!

It’s a reply to my previous comment after reading the assesment.

The two scenarios/incidents are completely different.

http://www.historywiz.com/primarysources/trumanmacarthur.html

In 1951 President Truman announced that General Douglas MacArthur was relieved of his duties as Allied Commander of United Nations forces in the Far East during the Korean War. MacArthur openly challenged U.S. civilian leadership by threatening to attack China in defiance of the President and the United Nations.

If you can’t understand the jargon, how can you have an honest, clear opinion one way or the other?

You can’t skim something, then expect to understand it. No one is going to the Cliff Notes for us plebes.

now he is just an Obama robot.

Alinsky said that organizers must be entirely unpredictable and unmistakably willing — for the sake of the moral principles in whose name they claim to act — to watch society descend into utter chaos and anarchy. He stated that they must be prepared, if necessary, to “go into a state of complete confusion and draw [their] opponent into the vortex of the same confusion.”

The current maddness in Washington and the media explains this ongoing lunacy. It will most likely continue.

No, you didn’t. Eagleburger said Obama had no choice but to send the 40,000 troops — but be wary if they come back asking for more.

It has recently been revealed that LBJ and his advisers were fully aware that Medicare was going to cost far more—nine times more as we now know— than they were letting on. They knew that Medicare would never get passed if people understood the actual costs, so he and his advisers lied about it. Imagine that, our President neglecting his principle duties as Commander in Chief while pursuing personal glory, and historical immortality, by ramming through deceptive landmark legislation that would end up causing terrible damage to the private health care industry (whether you understand it or not, Medicare and Medicaid are the predominant reasons for the explosion of medical costs). I’m either experiencing Deja vu, or just a bad episode of SSDD (same shit, different decade)