Obama Hedges on His Hedges in Afghanistan
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afghanistan appeasement Democrats hypocrites Liberals Obama taliban TerrorismThe guy just can’t ever pick a side and stick with it, can he? Check out this hedging of his bets:
The US has said that it may rethink its plan to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan by July 2011 if conditions on the ground prevent a security handover to the Afghan government.
But his comments underlined the difficulty for the US in meeting Mr Obama’s goal of turning around the eight-year Afghan war in eighteen months, and satisfying the president’s own party that the troop increase will not be a long term one.
“Our current plan is that we will begin the transition in local areas in July of 2011,” he said. “[But] we will evaluate in December 2010 whether we believe we will be able to meet that objective.
“If circumstances dictate in December the president always has the freedom to adjust his decisions.”
He tries to appease Republicans by sending 30,000 troops… he tries to appease Democrats saying they’ll leave in 18 months and pleases neither side! Now he says they might leave earlier or stay later! Geez!
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9:42 AM
My conclusion is that everyone should be reasonably happy with this policy, and the enemy should be thoroughly confused, which is what we all want.
.-= Joe Markowitz´s last blog ..Distractions =-.
12:21 PM
The Taliban – like me – are probably confused how this is a war of necessity yet it comes with an expiration date.