{"id":15561,"date":"2009-11-11T15:49:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15561"},"modified":"2009-11-11T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T20:49:14","slug":"veterans-day-is-a-good-day-to-figure-out-how-to-lose-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15561","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day is a Good Day to Figure Out how to Lose a War"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fastest Way to End a War is to Lose it.<\/p>\n

And that appears to be the President\u2019s strategy for dealing with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Apparently Obama is not even considering a strategy for victory. He wants to find a way out<\/a>. Expect the next talking point to be \u201cPeace with honor\u201d.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what he wants to \u201cdrill down\u201d on in what is likely to be the President\u2019s final meeting with his war counsel today.<\/p>\n

One close aide explained that Obama \u201cwants to see more intellectual energy\u201d focused on how this mission ends, saying that the President has insisted that \u201cwe\u2019re not going to be in Afghanistan for another 8 years.\u201d <\/p>\n

Another said that Obama wants a clear picture of the \u201cAmerican bridge\u201d out of Afghanistan. He doesn\u2019t have it yet. He\u2019s not satisfied with what he\u2019s heard so far. The President will press for answers today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, he wants to abandon the \u201cGood War\u201d that he built his entire campaign declaring that he would refocus and win?<\/p>\n

He\u2019s already sent out the National Security Advisor <\/a>to tell us all that McChrystal\u2019s troop increase request is just nonsense.<\/p>\n

As President Barack Obama prepares to make a final decision on Afghanistan, National Security Adviser Jim Jones dismissed and even seemed to mock a request for more troops from General Stanley McChrystal. \u201cYou could have 200,000 troops there and the country will swallow them up as it has done in the past,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

The comments came in a little-noticed interview with Der Spiegel, a German magazine, published over the weekend. Yesterday, Jones took the unusual step of publicly denying media reports that Obama was leaning towards a decision that would send between 34,000 and 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, numbers close to those requested by McChrystal.
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\nLater, Jones said that the United States wanted to get out of Afghanistan as soon as possible and suggested that adding troops was pointless.<\/p>\n

SPIEGEL: Afghanistan is famously referred to as the “graveyard of empires.”<\/p>\n

Jones: I know and that’s why I say we cannot solve the problems with only military forces. You can keep on putting troops in, and you could have 200,000 troops there and the country will swallow them up as it has done in the past. There are many empires who tried to make Afghanistan a stable and different country, and there have always been neighbors which were not interested in a stable and centralized government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, happy Veterans Day! Especially for those veterans of the Overseas Contingency Operation in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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