Posted on 09/17/2009 4:39:57 PM PDT by TADSLOS
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: There is no immediate decision pending on resources because one of the things that I'm absolutely clear about is we have to get the strategy right, and then make determinations about resources.
So we are going to proceed and make sure that we don't put the cart before the horse.
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BRET BAIER, HOST: President Obama today talking about U.S. forces inside Afghanistan and when that decision would be made, if he makes it.
Now, that's coming as we hear from our sources on Capitol Hill and in the military telling FOX News that General Stanley McChrystal's pending request will be for somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 more U.S. troops inside Afghanistan.
And we are told by sources that is encountering huge resistance on Capitol Hill and that there is sticker shock up on the Hill. The White House is now trying to get more time on this issue.
Let's bring in our panel about U.S. forces in Afghanistan: Steve Hayes, senior writer for The Weekly Standard; Mara Liasson, national political correspondent of National Public Radio, and syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer — Charles?
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BAIER: Charles, is there any way in your mind that this administration signs on to a surge of that size in Afghanistan?
KRAUTHAMMER: If that's what the general has asked, the president will have to say yes. This is a rookie who has no experience in this.
And if it were an Eisenhower in the White House, he could tell the generals, "That number is too high. I have experience in the Second World War." Obama will say, "I was a community organizer and those numbers are too high" — I think not.
Democrats have a reputation of being soft on national security. That's why they cynically inflated the importance of Afghanistan when they campaigned in '04 and '08, knowing that their heart was not really in it. Obama has to make a decision and it is going to have to be up or down. I'm not sure he has a compromise here.
We cannpt affprd to lose in Afghanistan but the far left in this country is praying we will fail there and want us to fail there and they will press Obummer not to send in any more troops and as a result the violence will increase proportionately and not only there but in Iraq and in Pakistan and other places to show that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are not gonna give up until they are completely wiped out forever.
ping for later
This is the “good “ war the Iraq war was the “bad” war
How long do ya think that will last?
Cant wait to beat my lib friends up over Obama waffling on the “good war”.
Does this explanation make sense to anyone?
Did he actually say anything?
They will just blame Bush.
Did he actually say anything?
I know this much, Obama's wasted 9 precious months eating ice cream, having beer summits and getting wee wee'd up making a crisis out of healthcare when we have troops fighting and dying without a defined mission to victory and remaining under resourced while engaging in combat under the politically correct buzz phrase of "contingency operation".
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