Obama’s Afghanistan plan
One expects this from slinking, apologizing, surrender monkeys.
Whispers of Surrender in Afghanistan?
It comes to our attention that the MEMRI Blog highlights an article from the Saudi al-Watan in Arabic that - according to an Afghan source - the United States is talking to the Taliban seeking to trade control of 5 provinces in exchange for the cessation of attacks on US bases. MEMRI summarizes:
An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement’s foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has offered the Taliban control of the Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan, Kunar and Nuristan provinces in return for a halt to the Taliban missile attacks on U.S. bases.
Kunar province borders the Khyber Pass region where the majority of US and NATO supplies pass enroute from Pakistan. And the remaining four provinces constitute fully the southern 25% of Afghanistan’s territory.
This, if true, is a disturbing development.
Selling the troops out is job one for the liberals; they voted to send them in so they wouldn’t be thought of poorly.
Now the true beliefs come out!
Archived in: Afghanistan, American Military, Liberals, Military Veterans, Progressives, VietnamNovember 23, 2009 at 6:33 pm | Trackback
5 comments
It should be pretty clear by now that Obama’s dithering has been to look for a way out of Afghanistan and not a way to win. One of his top advisors on Afghanistan is John Kerry, the man who worked very hard to bring about defeat in Vietnam by falsely testifying in 1972, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which he ironically now chairs, that his fellow servicemen were committing war crimes. He and others like him managed to turn public opinion against the war. It looks like deja vous all over again with Democrats running the show during a time of war even the war that Obama said is the right war and the one that must be won. Ha!
Jerry, he chose Kerry as a top advisor?
Hotspur,
Yes, it has been reported that Kerry is one of the few people that actually has his ear about what to do in Afghanistan. The meetings he is having are largely a charade. At a retired military officers meeting I attended last weekend, we heard from a speaker who is an instructor at the Army Command and Staff School at Ft. Leavenworth and who is an expert on Afghanistan and Pakistan. When I asked him if Obama was looking for a way out or a way to win, he agreed he is looking for a way out.
Hans Hoch!
They all have sunburned armpits from holding up the white flag.
I believe Obama is interested in winning the war in Afghanistan, but is too afraid to repeat what GW did in Iraq. Obama sent troops to Afghanistan in March, and now will send even more. So I can’t fault his actions, but the problem is that his rhetoric does not match.