Posted on 03/29/2009 7:30:22 PM PDT by SloopJohnB
Richard at The Belmont Club is taking a hard look at the Obama Effort in Afghanistan and wondering if the President realizes what he's getting himself into. I think he does.
I think he realizes what his needs are in Afghanistan. What he needs to do is end a war in an American defeat while being seen as "trying for a victory." To do that he has to engineer an American defeat. Iraq is already, in the public mind at least, in the win column. So how do we engineer an American defeat? It is simplicity itself. You begin, not with a "surge" but a ripple.
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Run up the white flag and declare victory?
Just a smokescreen for when we get hit with a nuke or other WMD, he can say he was tough on terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He won’t say anything about all the other things that Bush put in place to keep us safe that he immediately dismantled.
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