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WAVING THE WHITE FLAG? Obama to Invite Taliban Into Afghan Govt.
By PoliJAM | October 8, 2009
In a war that then-Senator Barack Obama said throughout the election campaign was a war that America must win, he now says as the President of the United States that he does not want to win it.
The London Times is reporting today that Mr. Obama is now prepared to invite the Taliban into Afghanistan’s government and the nation’s political future as he waves the white flag of surrender to the Islamic extremist group.
Once again, our president appeases the enemies of America and stays silent in the face of human rights violations.
President Obama is prepared to accept some Taleban involvement in Afghanistan’s political future and is unlikely to favour a large influx of new US troops being demanded by his ground commander, a senior official said tonight.
Mr Obama appears to have been swayed in recent days by arguments from some advisers, led by Vice-President Joe Biden, that the Taleban do not pose a direct threat to the US and that there should be greater focus on tackling al-Qaeda inside Pakistan.
The official, speaking anonymously to the press about Mr Obama’s internal discussions – a tactic that is causing dismay among some senior military officials – said the president’s final decision on his war strategy and troop levels is still at least two weeks away.
Yet if Mr Obama fails to dispatch at least a significant number of the 40,000 troops requested by General Stanley McChystal, he will have ignored the wishes of his own ground commander and will face fierce attacks from Republicans back home.
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General McChrystal, together with Republicans and some moderate Democrats, insists that a full counter-insurgency strategy is the only option to avoid losing the war in Afghanistan, and that defeat will lead to the return of the terror network. Mr Obama’s lengthy reassessment of that strategy – which he announced in March – is triggering increased misgivings inside the military.Army officers who gathered at a convention in Washington earlier this week expressed dismay over thinly disguised rebukes given to General McChrystal last weekend by Mr Gates and James Jones, Mr Obama’s National Security Adviser, after the ground commander said in a London speech that a scaled-back war effort would fail.
Others also expressed concern that the mission was still ill-defined, and that Mr Obama’s reassessment could damage the campaign by demoralising the troops and unnerving allies.
In the below video you can hear the former Democratic presidential candidate ripping into Senator McCain for not finishing the job in Afghanistan by keeping his eye off the ball in Iraq.
With Iraq seemingly won, it seems that for every time President Obama says the word Iraq in the below video, you can just substitute the words ‘big government ObamaCare’ as Mr. Obama’s distraction from Afghanistan today.
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October 8th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Wow. It took him a whole ten months before he waved the white flag. Such a strong commander-in-chief!
October 8th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
He’s waving the white flag to the Taliban, Iran, and the MoveOn dot org