{"id":19818,"date":"2010-07-22T08:12:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T12:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19818"},"modified":"2010-07-22T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T12:12:08","slug":"petraeus-to-clarify-strategy-to-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19818","title":{"rendered":"Petraeus to clarify strategy to commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Julian Barnes writes that General Petraeus is going to make his strategy more clear to commanders and generally straighten out the way the war had been fought earlier this year. According to the WSJ;<\/p>\n

…the officials said Gen. McChrystal put too much attention on hunting down Taliban leaders, at the expense of the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy, which focuses on protecting civilians and bolstering popular support for the government. Supporters of Gen. McChrystal dispute that assessment, dismissing any notion there were flaws in how he fought the war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I’m not saying that McCrystal fought the war that way, but, if he did, wasn’t that the strategy that Joe Bite Me wanted with his emphasis on ninja robot zombies? Is someone saying that Bite Me was wrong? In public? Dp I smell another witch hunt?<\/p>\n

In the interim, it seems that forcing Afghanistan to expand their security forces faster than they can manage is allowing infiltrators and saboteurs into their ranks<\/a>. The New York Times<\/a> says Obama is losing support in Congress for the war;<\/p>\n

For two months, Democrats in Congress have been holding up billions of dollars in additional financing for the war, longer than they ever delayed similar requests from President George W. Bush. Most Republican leaders have largely backed a continued commitment, but the White House was surprised the other day when one of Mr. Obama\u2019s mentors on foreign policy issues in the Senate, Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, argued that \u201cthe lack of clarity in Afghanistan does not end with the president\u2019s timetable,\u201d and that both the military and civilian missions were \u201cproceeding without a clear definition of success.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess that’s the price you pay when you fail to recognize that Joe Bite Me, the self-proclaimed “Smartest Man in the Country” has been systematically wrong on every foreign policy issue since the early 80s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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