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Say Anything: General McChrystal Asks For 80,000 More Troops To Make Afghanistan “Low Risk,” Obama Sending 34,000
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Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan. McCrystal wants 80,000. Another let down to troops! http://bit.ly/2motpW 11 days ago |
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Not quite McChrystal's requested 40k, but still encouraging that Obama hasn't given up on Afghanistan. http://bit.ly/rTF7Q 13 days ago |
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McChrystal: We need 80,000 troops to make Afghanistan low-risk. Obama: How about 34,000? http://is.gd/4PS2u http://myloc.me/1o3VP 13 days ago |
General McChrystal Asks For 80,000 More Troops To Make Afghanistan “Low Risk,” Obama Sending 34,000
Say Anything —
... WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month, administration and military officials have told McClatchy. ...
Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed —
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Obama may make decision to send 34K more troops to Af-Pak soon
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... It’s been three months since General Stanley McChrystal informed the Obama administration of the resources he needs to successfully prosecute the war. The controversy over the elections in Afghanistan have been resolved for a week now, which supposedly kept Barack Obama from making a decision on whether to give McChrystal more troops and the number that will be sent. This morning, McClatchy reports on an apparent trial balloon coming from the White House that Obama will split the difference between McChrystal’s medium- and high-risk options for troop support of a ...
Obama mulling 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan
Open Left - Quick Hits's RSS Feed —
From McClatchy:
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month, administration and military officials have told McClatchy.
As it now stands, the administration's plan calls for sending three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y. and a Marine brigade, for a total of as many as 23,000 ...
Report: Obama Likely To Send 34,000 Troops To Afghanistan
Below The Beltway —
It’s less than General McChrystal recommends, but still a substantial increase in the American commitment to a questionable war:
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month, administration and military officials have told McClatchy.
As it now stands, the administration’s plan calls for sending three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne ...
Meanwhile, About Afghanistan…
Taylor Marsh —
The latest TM-DC podcast is up.
Last Friday I listened to Sect. Hillary Clinton give a speech at the first “No Limits” conference. This is Ann Lewis’ group made up of, well, the political arm of what’s left of Clinton’s 2008 campaign, though that’s my interpretation, not the official line. Clinton was subdued and substantively serious. At one point she addressed our involvement around the world: Why do we involve ourselves in conflicts that “are insoluable?” Her answer ...
Report: Obama leaning towards 34,000 additional troops in Afghanistan
Ace of Spades HQ —
Report: Obama leaning towards 34,000 additional troops in Afghanistan (chad) WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month, administration and military officials have told McClatchy. The first troops wouldn't arrive until March and the last of the surge troops wouldn't arrive until the end of 2010. source ...
Mikhail Gorbachev On 20th Anniversary Of Fall Of Berlin Wall
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN's John King Sunday on State Of The Union and after talking about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev suggested that the US revisit the Kremlin's efforts to control Afghanistan as the US plans its next move.
"I think that what's needed is not additional forces," said Gorbachev. "This is something that we discussed, too, years ago, and we decided not to do it. And i think our experience deserves attention." McClatchy has reported that President Obama is leaning toward sending as many as ...
Sunday reading: 34,000
Ben Smith's Blog —
O'Connor and Bresnahan have a behind-the-scenes picture of the emotions in the House.
Rahm will stand in for Obama before a Jewish group.
Obama will likely send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Gorby thinks we should be leaving Afghanistan.
TPAW takes Des Moines.
He continues to say slightly edgy stuff about his wife.
And a commenter here distinguishes him or herself in the field of idiotic anti-Semitism.
Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch - The Barack "Baines" Obama Version
democracyarsenal.org —
If the New York Times is to be believed things don't look good on the Afghanistan front: Advisers to President Obama
are preparing three options for escalating the war effort in
Afghanistan, all of them calling for more American troops, as he moves
closer to a decision on the way forward in the eight-year-old war,
officials said Saturday. ...
The Afghanistan Guessing Game--One Brigade, Two Brigades, Red Brigade, Blue Brigade
Swampland —
Not quite big enough for the Drudge Report siren but he did put it in red text: CBS News has the (maybe) scoop , REVEALED BY CBSNEWS TONIGHT: OBAMA'S PLAN FOR AFGHANISTAN; send four combat brigades plus thousands more support troops... close to the 40,000 that McChrystal wanted... Then there was the McClatchy report this weekend: President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year. . . As it now stands, the administration's plan calls for sending three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y. ...
White House Strongly Denies Reports Obama Has Decided On Afghanistan Troop Levels
TPM Election Central —
The White House is forcefully denying reports that President Obama has settled on the number of troops to send to Afghanistan.
Several stories in recent days have suggested he has made a decision and cite specific troop levels.
Officials have dismissed those as inaccurate, but tonight the White House is sending out a rare statement from National Security Adviser Gen. Jim Jones:
"Reports that President Obama has made a decision about Afghanistan are absolutely false. He has not received final options for his consideration, he has not reviewed those options with his national security team, and he has not ...
Blazing Afghanistan
Antiwar.com Original —
... his tenure as national security adviser. What little he’s said about the AfPak situation has been anti-hysterical. In early October, he told CNN “I don’t foresee the return of the Taliban, And I want to be very clear that Afghanistan is not in danger – imminent danger – of falling.” That was in clear contrast to the falling-sky picture of Afghanistan that McChrystal and his supporters have been painting. (We need more troops now, now, now or all will be lost. Pish.) Rumors abound. McClatchy reports that Obama is leaning toward sending 34,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. ...
CBS: Obama To Announce Plan To Send More Troops To Afghanistan
Below The Beltway —
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Confirming a McClatchy report that I wrote about earlier this week, CBS News is reporting that President Obama is set to announce a troop plan that will give General Stanley McChrystal nearly all the troops that he asked for:
Tonight, after months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there, long term.
The president still has more meetings scheduled on Afghanistan, but ...
Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch - The Man Alone Version
democracyarsenal.org —
... Every
day it seems comes a new "leak" that the President is on the verge of
sending between 30,000 and 40,000 troops to Afghanistan. First came McClatchy over the weekend saying 34,000. Then ...
Mop needed. Plumber, too
Mudville Gazette —
When it comes to Afghanistan - America's top national security concern today - the "leaks" from the administration have amounted to a flood, with new and seemingly contradictory reports appearing daily in the global media. It's been going on for months, but now President Obama says he wants it stopped.
Here's a look back at the history of the problem.
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CBS - Obama: I'd Fire Afghan Decision Leakers. "We have deliberations in the situation room for a reason; we're making life and death decisions that affect how our troops are able to operate in a theater of ...
Rachel Maddow, Spencer Ackerman Provide Rare Moment Of Clarity In The Afghanistan Escalation Debate (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
The more I hear about the troop level increases that are ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to win in Afghanistan, the more and more I feel detached from any sense of what this troop escalation is supposed to achieve in practical terms. That doesn't necessarily mean it can't achieve something, it just means that I don't know what 40,000 additional troops will be tasked with, or stationed, or deployed to support. And why 40,000? Where did that number even come from? I suspect that future generations will refer to "40,000 troops" as a "Kagan unit," the same way the "next three to six vitally important months" are a "Friedman unit."
But the escalation ...
Rachel Maddow, Spencer Ackerman Provide Rare Moment Of Clarity In The Afghanistan Escalation Debate (VIDEO)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
The more I hear about the troop level increases that are ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to win in Afghanistan, the more and more I feel detached from any sense of what this troop escalation is supposed to achieve in practical terms. That doesn't necessarily mean it can't achieve something, it just means that I don't know what 40,000 additional troops will be tasked with, or stationed, or deployed to support. And why 40,000? Where did that number even come from? I suspect that future generations will refer to "40,000 troops" as a "Kagan unit," the same way the "next three to six vitally important months" are a "Friedman unit."
But the escalation ...
