Monday, October 26, 2009

BARACK OBAMA

Territorial Concessions in Afghanistan?

The Washington Post reports on Pentagon war games, trying to get a sense of what happens under different scenarios in Afghanistan:

One of the exercise's key assumptions is that an increase of 10,000 to 15,000 troops would not in the near future give U.S. commanders the forces they need to take back havens from the Taliban commanders in southern and western Afghanistan, where shadow insurgent governors collect taxes and run court systems based on Islamic sharia law.

They control territory, and we're not going to fight to get it back. This sounds an awful lot like territorial concessions.

Way back in August, that sounded pretty unthinkable:

This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people.

In the long history of Obama's expiration dates, this might be the biggest one...

10/26 09:37 AMShare