Does Obama want the troops to die on the battlefield without reinforcements?

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Obama may make decision to send 34K more troops to Af-Pak soon
posted at 12:00 pm on November 8, 2009 by Ed Morrissey


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 counterinsurgency strategy — but still won’t make a decision until after Obama takes a tour of Asia later this month:

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 additional combat and support troops.

Another 7,000 troops would man and support a new division headquarters for the international force’s Regional Command (RC) South in Kandahar, the Taliban birthplace where the U.S. is due to take command in 2010. Some 4,000 additional U.S. trainers are likely to be sent as well, the officials said. …

It splits the difference between two other McChrystal options: a “high-risk” one that called for 20,000 additional troops and a “medium-risk” one that would add 40,000 to 45,000 troops.

The officials, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss internal administration planning, cautioned that Obama’s decision isn’t final, and won’t be until after administration officials discuss it with the NATO allies at a Nov. 23 meeting of the alliance’s North Atlantic Council and its Military Committee.

 

[Calabrio]

...a medium-high risk.

 

[fossten]

Omaniac is a gutless chickensh** turd. He stalls on Afghanistan because he doesn't want to piss off his leftwing base before he passes his Monstrosity Takeover of Healthcare Bill.

He's literally gambling with the lives of our service men and women.

He's a traitor.

 

[lincolnx2]

While I am not a huge fan of Obama policies, we have to look at the dwell time these brigades have, I know for a fact 101st just redeployed for the fourth time in April, 1AD just returned to Germany and now they are in the process of moving to Ft. Bliss. 82nd is over there now, 2 Brigades from 4th ID because the other 2 just moved to Fort Carson, 172nd Stryker brigade won't do too much good because their vechicles are too wide for the terrain. 3rd just got back. Who does he have to send? I honestly think we should pull our troops back to the main FOBs and let the Afghans take control.

 

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While I am not a huge fan of Obama policies, we have to look at the dwell time these brigades have, I know for a fact 101st just redeployed for the fourth time in April, 1AD just returned to Germany and now they are in the process of moving to Ft. Bliss. 82nd is over there now, 2 Brigades from 4th ID because the other 2 just moved to Fort Carson, 172nd Stryker brigade won't do too much good because their vechicles are too wide for the terrain. 3rd just got back. Who does he have to send? I honestly think we should pull our troops back to the main FOBs and let the Afghans take control.

That's a bullsh** excuse. If there were no troops to send McChrystal wouldn't have asked for them. Obama's stalling because he's a coward and a traitor.

So let's pull out our guys and just drop a nuke and be done with it.

 

[lincolnx2]

That's a bullsh** excuse. If there were no troops to send McChrystal wouldn't have asked for them. Obama's stalling because he's a coward and a traitor.

So let's pull out our guys and just drop a nuke and be done with it.

We finally agree on something, I dont think we should nuke them, I do think we should blow up Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, and build a resort there, if we nuke them we cant use the land for years.

 

[fossten]

We finally agree on something, I dont think we should nuke them, I do think we should blow up Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, and build a resort there, if we nuke them we cant use the land for years.

We don't need the oil though. We have enough on our own soil, and we'd be eliminating the competition! $$$$

 

[lincolnx2]

We don't need the oil though. We have enough on our own soil, and we'd be eliminating the competition! $$$$

I wasnt even thinking oil, I was thinking resort condo's. Picture this, Disney middle east, never rains, hot summers, warm winters!