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Posted by Duncan on December 1st, 2009
“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 … so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers,” Obama will say, according to excerpts from his speech at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Obama will say that the additional U.S. forces “will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces, and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011,” according to the excerpts released by the White House.
The president has a goal of withdrawing most U.S. forces by the end of his current term, senior administration officials told CNN Tuesday. Obama’s first term ends in a little more than three years.
The President is planning to get those 30,000 troops into theater in six months, which gets his “surge” to full strength around June 2010. The President then plans to begin the withdrawal of American troops in July 2011, with the majority of troops to withdraw by the end of 2012.
They have ONE year to do the job, and the message is loud and clear to the Taliban and Al Qaeda that all they have to do is hold out ONE year, and the U.S. will then declare VICTORY, and then get to enjoy “peace with honor”, much like our experience in Vietnam.
Sigh.
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:09 am
I thought Bush declared victory in 2003? Remember, the air craft carrier, the flight suit, the big banner behind him saying we won (seriously, Google image that..). Oh wait! He said mission accomplished. My bad. I guess we are still at war.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:39 am
It is sort of a combination of Vietnam politico-military strategy with a touch of total incompetence thrown in. So now the priceless lives of our military are laid on the altar of incompetent leadership. Best case scenario is that the enemy buttons up and hides until we leave.
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:40 am
It’s kinda like McNamara, Jimmuh, Bubba and Rummy all rolled up into one tidy piece of pig dung that history will look back on and wonder how we ever survived as long as we did…
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Bambi isn’t Bush, that’s for sure. The Bambs is trying to appease all his leftard friends, and in the end this always places America at risk. Typical soft balled liberal.
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Raven, I wasn’t aware he had balls – even soft, useless ones.
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:32 am
What is needed to deal with this enemy is balls of steel and a heart of ice.
Here’s an article I saw on American Thinker that outlines some strategic points that are either interesting or ominous: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/on_afpak_is_obama_clever_or_st.html