{"id":20977,"date":"2010-10-27T09:06:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20977"},"modified":"2010-10-27T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:08:31","slug":"wapo-war-against-taliban-is-unsuccessful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20977","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: War against Taliban is unsuccessful"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post’s Greg Miller writes this morning that “U.S. military campaign to topple resilient Taliban hasn’t succeeded<\/a>” of course this is based on a single, unnamed “Defense Department official’s assessment.<\/p>\n

The Obama administration’s plan to conduct a strategic review of the war in December has touched off maneuvering between U.S. military leaders seeking support for extending the American troop buildup and skeptics looking for arguments to wind down the nation’s role.<\/p>\n

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has touted the success of recent operations and indicated that the military thinks it will be able to show meaningful progress by the December review. He said last week that progress is occurring “more rapidly than was anticipated” but acknowledged that major obstacles remain. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if the Washington Post is right, they don’t bother to consider that the Obama Administration neglected to honor the assessment of General McCrystal when they gave him half of the troops he requested in 2009. McCrystal warned at the time that refusing to give him sufficient troops would result in exactly these results.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Washington Post blames solely the Pakistanis;<\/p>\n

A crackdown by Pakistan’s military on those sanctuaries probably would have a greater impact on the war than any option available to Petraeus, officials said. But given the Pakistani government’s long-standing connections to the Haqqani network and the Taliban, a move by Islamabad against those groups is considered unlikely, at least by the administration’s timetable. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah, the precious timetable again. This administration considers the war a distraction from the president’s domestic policy and arriving at politically expedient decision in regards to the war is more attractive than the prospect of victory. <\/p>\n

I agree that Pakistan’s involvement in the war against the Taliban would be helpful, but given the fact that this administration more willing to throw the allies of democracy undr the bus to demonstrate his commitment to “smart diplomacy” why should the Pakistanis help us?<\/p>\n

The current administration’s penchant for a policy of waiting for foreign policy issues to work themselves out has only encouraged our enemies from North Korea to Iran. Our adherence to a timeline rather than total warfare in Afghanistan has done the same for the Taliban. <\/p>\n

Maybe if the media would stop praying at the altar of Obama and stop treating this war like a political issue, maybe things would turn in our direction for a change. <\/p>\n

Thanks to Jerry920 for sending this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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