Posted on 10/24/2009 10:48:03 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
NATO defense ministers Friday endorsed the kind of broad counterinsurgency approach for Afghanistan that is the basis for the pending troop request by the NATO and the U.S. commander there, General Stanley McChrystal. The ministers, including U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, are meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the defense ministers have a "general shared view" that the alliance must make Afghanistan strong enough to defend itself against militant forces. And he said the ministers also agree on the approach for accomplishing that.
"There is the support of this counterinsurgency strategy, which means that ministers agree that it does not solve the problems in Afghanistan just to hunt down and kill individual terrorists," Rasmussein said. "What we need is a much broader strategy which stabilizes the whole Afghan society."
That has been the core of the debate in Washington, with President Barack Obama reviewing the counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan he announced in March. The review was prompted, in part, by a grim assessment from General McChrystal, who is here at the NATO meeting to provide a direct readout to the defense ministers. The general's secret assessment, leaked to the Washington Post (newspaper) several weeks ago, follows the president's basic approach, but says it could fail unless he gets more troops.
His specific request is still secret, but it is believed to involve tens of thousands more troops.
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Obama to the rest of the world, “Gone fishin.” Call me in six weeks if something important comes up.
OK Zero!
Get out of the campaign plane; all around the country.
Get off the WH hoop floor!
No more NYC $3 mil dates with Michelle.
No more golf dates!
Forget about Dave Letterman, you’ve done him!
No more complaining about swine flu.
No more meetings with Iraq’s Malaki, or phone messages to Karsai telling them that Zer0’s pround that they’re losers.
No more bitching about Fox.
No more fostering the “public option” in front of 200 TV cameras.
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GET DOWN TO IT! AMERICANS AND MANY OTHERS ARE DIEING IN AFGANISTAN!
??IS BIDEN; OR KERRY; OR SCHUMER, OR CLINTON; OR LEVIN; OR LEAHY; OR REID; OR SOROS, OR ANY OTHER NON-COMBAT POLITICIAN, GOING TO CONVINCE YOU TO WALK AWAY FROM AFGANISTAN???:
OR, IS THE REALITY THAT IF YOU DECIDE THAT IF THE U.S. PULLS OUT, TURNS TAIL (LIKE IN NAM), AND SHOWS THE REST OF THE FREE WORLD THAT THE U.S. IS NOT A TRUSTED DEFENSE PARTNER, SO THEY HAD BEST CRANK UP THEIR OWN NUCLEAR MUNITIONS: (THEN YOUR NOBEL NON-NUC PEACE PRIZE BLOWS UP IN YOUR FACE)
SO, ZERO
- THE FUTURE OF THE FREE WORLD SITS ON YOUR WIMPY SHOULDERS. VOTING PRESENT, AIN’T AN OPTION.
SO WAT’CHA GONNA DO, ZER0??
OBL is not to be found.
time to leave
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