Posted on 08/09/2009 4:02:27 PM PDT by VRWCTexan
(last 8 yrs US)... spent $223 billion on war-related funding for that country, according to the Congressional Research Service. Aid expenditures, excluding the cost of combat operations, have grown exponentially, from $982 million in 2003 to $9.3 billion last year.
.... Obama administration is in the process of overhauling the U.S. approach to Afghanistan, putting its focus on long-term security, economic sustainability and development. That approach is also likely to require deployment of more American military personnel, at the very least to train additional Afghan security forces.
Later this month, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is expected to present his.... analysis could prompt an increase in U.S. troop levels to help implement President Obama's new strategy.
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I’m plenty old enough to recall Lyndon Johnson’s “guns and butter” economics
Part of Bin Laden’s plan is too break us financially. After all of this time there, our government should realize that some form of “moderate” Islam is not coming.
I read somewhere about Obama cancelling air cover - but I haven’t seen it discussed since a while back.
No self respecting military man will long obey the “orders” of a loon.
Just wait.
On another note, could go on for paragraphs about Afghanistan, but I think Obama is learning that it is easy when you are campaigning to say one thing, but actually trying to execute it is another.
McCrystal didn’t put those restrictions in place. The restrictions came straight from the WH.
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