Obama Rejects All Options On Afghanistan, Demands New Plan
It's now taken longer for Barack Obama to evaluate General McChrystal's plan than it took George W. Bush to overthrow the Taliban after the September 11 attacks. From The Decider to The Ditherer:
President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
Uh huh, good luck with that. The Afghan government doesn't have tens of billions in oil money to prop up its security forces, and the main source of revenue for Afghans is still, stupidly, only permitted by our enemies.
posted by Dave on 11.12.09 at 02:17 PM
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Well, in Obama's defense, overthrowing whichever group of Pushtun that is serving as the Afghan king is easy. It has been done often. Modernizing, pacifiying or ruling Afghanistan the way we think of ruling it is hard. It has been done, but the even thinner than usual veneer of civilization and literacy was pretty much toast after the Communists, the civil war and the Taliban. Planning for this part of the conflict is much harder.
Well, in Obama's defense, overthrowing whichever group of Pushtun that is serving as the Afghan king is easy. It has been done often. Modernizing, pacifiying or ruling Afghanistan the way we think of ruling it is hard. It has been done, but the even thinner than usual veneer of civilization and literacy was pretty much toast after the Communists, the civil war and the Taliban. Planning for this part of the conflict is much harder.
Yours,
Tom DeGisi