Is Obama Preparing to Surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban?
Tags: Afghan Campaign, Terrorist Groups.
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After all this talk as candidate and President about taking the fight to Taliban, now we get this:
President Obama’s national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing that the Taliban in Afghanistan do not pose a direct threat to the United States, officials said Wednesday.
As Mr. Obama met with advisers for three hours to discuss Pakistan, the White House said he had not decided whether to approve a proposed troop buildup in Afghanistan. But the shift in thinking, outlined by senior administration officials on Wednesday, suggests that the president has been presented with an approach that would not require all of the additional troops that his commanding general in the region has requested.
In other words: Obama’s leftwing base is opposed to fighting for victory in Afghanistan while an outright cut-and-run would damage Obama irretrievably on the national security and terrorism issues…so, a compromise and, like all compromises in war, its a miserable thing. Obama’s team – if not yet Obama – is leaning towards a cowardly scuttle of Afghanistan. Perhaps with a “decent interval” to get Obama past the 2012 campaign.
This cannot be allowed – to surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban (and any “power sharing” arrangement would just be a temporary delay of outright Taliban control) is to lose the War on Terrorism. It will completely undo all our efforts since 9/11 and put us squarely back where we were the day we pulled out of Somalia in 1993. We’ll become sitting ducks – waiting here at home in a defensive crouch for the enemy to strike…but an ever more inattentive crouch as months and years go by with no direct attack on us. We’ll have 9/11, again – perhaps with WMD instead of hijacked planes.
We must fight – and keep fighting as long as is necessary to turn Afghanistan in to a viable nation with a reasonable level of liberty and prosperity. If we do anything else, then we just sign the death warrants of untold thousands of people – Americans among them, in the by and by. Its fight now, or fight later – and Obama’s people, typical of corrupt, liberal elites, are only thinking of the next year or two…that thousand might die after 2012 doesn’t concern them in the least…only the next election matters.
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12 Responses to “Is Obama Preparing to Surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban?”
Caucus of Corruption
just like “the awakening” in iraq w the sunni insurgency.
Is Obama Preparing to Surrender Afghanistan to the Taliban?
Hey, he has to do something to justify the Nobel Peace Prize.
If Obama wants my vote in 2012, then he better remove ALL troops from Afghanistan and Iraq NOW!!!
And thats just the way it is.
the taliban?
if this is what america stands for, time to move folks….
magnum says:
October 9th, 2009 at 9:48 am
If Obama wants my vote in 2012, then he better remove ALL troops from Afghanistan and Iraq NOW!!!
Come on……..you know full well that you’ll vote for whatever liberal is running. They could run Bin Laden on the Democrat ticket, and most liberals would vote for him.
Obama is a coward, and doesn’t have the balls to withdraw the troops. It could hurt his ratings, and that’s all he cares about. That’s also the same reason that he won’t commit enough troops to get the job done…….because that could also hurt his ratings.
He needs borrow Hillary Clintons balls for a day, and make a stand. Withdraw our troops, or give them what they need to win. If he doesn’t give them what they need to win, then the blood of every American killed over there is on his hands…….not Bush’s.
Come on……..you (magnum) know full well that you’ll vote for whatever liberal is running. – Chuck
LMAO. You nailed it chuck. As if magnum had a brain.
cluster
if hussein has a brain is more like it.
the useful idiot lemmings never did have one.
Chuck
people like to compare Zer0 to kennedy……..
Like kennedy Zer0 has
screwed the CIA
screwed the military
maybe soon the mafia?
he may end up being kennedy after all
is this the thread about obama earning the nobel peace prize?
oh wait, that’s the other thread.
never mind.
Obama is becoming Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter did – Erik Erickson
LOL
I can see the spin now – It won’t be a retreat, but a strategic redeployment.