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Answer the question, how many troops did the military ask for and how many did they get? Maybe Obama ought to play less golf and have fewer fund raisers and learn how to do the job. Leadership is about taking responsibility and not blaming someone else.
Obama thought long and hard about Afghanistan unlike the last President whose contributions consisted of endless "find something on Saddam" diatribes. The fact that there are no good solutions is not Obama's fault. You can read about it if you want, but there are no golf games or fundraisers so I doubt you would be interested.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/world/asia/06reconstruct.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0The three-month review that led to the escalate-then-exit strategy is a case study in decision making in the Obama White House — intense, methodical, rigorous, earnest and at times deeply frustrating for nearly all involved. It was a virtual seminar in Afghanistan and Pakistan, led by a president described by one participant as something “between a college professor and a gentle cross-examiner.”
Mr. Obama peppered advisers with questions and showed an insatiable demand for information, taxing analysts who prepared three dozen intelligence reports for him and Pentagon staff members who churned out thousands of pages of documents.
This account of how the president reached his decision is based on dozens of interviews with participants as well as a review of notes some of them took during Mr. Obama’s 10 meetings with his national security team. Most of those interviewed spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, but their accounts have been matched against those of other participants wherever possible.
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