{"id":18879,"date":"2010-04-29T07:23:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T12:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18879"},"modified":"2010-04-29T07:23:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T12:23:36","slug":"not-enough-troops-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18879","title":{"rendered":"Not enough troops in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Running up to the 2008 election, we read about how Bush had neglected Afghanistan and how the war there was under-resourced<\/a>. Critics, of course, rightly blamed the Bush Administration, consistently and loudly every time a report emerged<\/a> which bolstered their pre-conceived notions<\/a>. So what should we do with this report<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Despite the addition of more than 50,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the past year, there still aren\u2019t enough forces to conduct operations in the majority of key areas, according to a congressionally mandated report released Wednesday on progress in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Coalition forces have decided to focus their efforts on 121 key districts in Afghanistan, but right now, NATO has enough forces to operate in only 48 of those districts, the report said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So where is that consistent and loud criticism these days? I guess it’s better used to beat down enforcement of our immigration laws, or to complain about the folks who invest our money in a market we don’t understand. Or to complain about banks which foreclose on our houses when we don’t pay the mortgage for months or years.<\/p>\n

I guess it really doesn’t matter anymore that General McChrystal asked for more troops than he got<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) — while Afghan security capacity matures — risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible,” U.S. and NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal said in the document, according to the Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The President and Congress sought a political compromise in a no-compromise situation. Political decisions made by amateurs<\/a> have no place in the all-too-real world of fighting wars. When our foreign policy is written in the front room of the Code Pink House, we really can’t expect a different outcome than we have now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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