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Senators, Advisers Urge Obama to Double Afghan Forces (Update1) - Bloomberg.com
What is the plan for Afghanistan? We went in there to take the Taliban out for sheltering Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, but that was years ago now....what is Dear Leader's goal for Afghanistan now? Why is Dear Leader hesitant about committing to the plan, if there is one?
Of a certainty a native Afghan army is cheaper and expends fewer American lives than having US forces take on the Taliban all the time, but training those additional forces requires additional units sent to act as instructors, et cetera.
Funding an Afghan Army of some 400,000 in size sounds great....can the Afghan nation sustain that army on its own?
How does Dear Leader plan to bring the Taliban to heel so American troops can come home?
Ok, folks can haggle endless over whether we should or should not expect nitty gritty details from Washington on health care, but here's a question where the details absolutely matter.Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama and top U.S. military commanders are under pressure from senators and civilian advisers to double the size of Afghan security forces, a commitment that would cost billions of dollars.
In private letters and face-to-face meetings, these supporters of mounting a stronger effort against the Taliban seek to boost the Afghan National Army and police to at least 400,000 personnel from the current 175,000.
“Any further postponement” of a decision to support a surge in Afghan forces will hamper U.S. efforts to quell an insurgency in its eighth year, Senators Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, wrote to the White House in a July 21 letter obtained by Bloomberg News.
General Stanley McChrystal, the new U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, will recommend a speedier expansion of Afghan forces beyond current targets in an assessment he will give Defense Secretary Robert Gates and North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen by Aug. 14, according to a military official familiar with the review.
What is the plan for Afghanistan? We went in there to take the Taliban out for sheltering Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, but that was years ago now....what is Dear Leader's goal for Afghanistan now? Why is Dear Leader hesitant about committing to the plan, if there is one?
Of a certainty a native Afghan army is cheaper and expends fewer American lives than having US forces take on the Taliban all the time, but training those additional forces requires additional units sent to act as instructors, et cetera.
Funding an Afghan Army of some 400,000 in size sounds great....can the Afghan nation sustain that army on its own?
How does Dear Leader plan to bring the Taliban to heel so American troops can come home?