With top commanders and congressional Republicans pushing for more troops, President Barack Obama met Wednesday with key members of his national security team to hash out a response to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's report on the Afghanistan war and his call for more U.S. forces to save the mission.
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"When he installed McChrystal as commander in Afghanistan earlier this year, Obama ordered him to write an assessment of the conflict. The dire answer came back in September, declaring the U.S. would fail to meet its objectives of causing irreparable damage to Taliban militants and their al-Qaida allies if the administration did not significantly increase American forces."
Quite. And with 500,000 troops on the ground at the time of the Tet Offensive, Obama has a substantial margin of political and "moral" safety–i.e., a buffer established by Milhous–before he suffers any compunction about his "rambunctious" behaviour with life and limb: life and limb of others, that is.
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October 1, 2009 @ 11:23 pm