{"id":62294,"date":"2015-10-13T08:56:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T12:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62294"},"modified":"2015-10-13T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T12:56:50","slug":"nyt-is-the-pentagon-telling-the-truth-about-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62294","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Is the Pentagon Telling the Truth About Afghanistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/a> editorial board charges that the Pentagon isn’t giving the President good information on the conduct and successes in Afghanistan based on a report from the United Nations that claims there is a resurgence of the Taliban. <\/p>\n

The fall of Kunduz two weeks ago was a startling sign of how the Taliban has reasserted itself, wresting a northern city from the control of the NATO-trained Afghan Security Forces, who are not doing a great job of showing they are up to defending their country. The United Nations data, reported by The Times on Monday and backed up by interviews with local officials, paint an even bleaker picture of an expanding insurgency that has spread through more of Afghanistan than at any point since the Taliban government was deposed at the end of 2001.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, I’m pretty sure that the Pentagon is only giving the President the information that he wants to hear. The Pentagon gave him unbiased information when he was considering how many troops he was sending in the Afghanistan “surge” and he discounted the numbers that he was given by the Pentagon and the CIA. He disregarded their advice that not fully staffing the surge would have the results that we’ve been seeing for the last six years. So, the message from the White House, after Stan McCrystal was fired, was that the Pentagon should just tell the White House what they want to hear, that facts had no place in the daily briefings. <\/p>\n

Looking at the way the war against ISIS is being prosecuted, the truth doesn’t matter any-damn-way. <\/p>\n

When ISIS was at the gates of Ramadi earlier this year, the White House, weeks before the city fell to ISIS, discounted the city’s importance and let it go. So, really, what’s the point of telling the truth? the President is going to do what the President is going to do, regardless of the way the war is going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times editorial board charges that the Pentagon isn’t giving the President good information … NYT: Is the Pentagon Telling the Truth About Afghanistan?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}