Obama to announce major Afghanistan escalation

[Alexander Arnakis]

McClatchy Newspapers is reporting that Obama will announce on Dec. 1st
that he's sending an additional 34,000 troops to Afghanistan. This is
near the high end of the options presented to him.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/79380.html

This will deplete most of the deployable reserves, and cost billions
of dollars more, with no end in sight.

I've seen this movie before: LBJ and Vietnam.

That's it. I'm finished with Obama.

[Archimandrite Josef]

Alexander Arnakis wrote:

***The U.S. never learns from the past...its own, nor any other
country's...(hint: Russia).

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[Archimandrite Josef]

Alexander Arnakis wrote:

***Maybe this is why Obama is seeking to end the U.S. presence in
Japan. there are more than 50,000 troops in that country.

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[Archimandrite Josef]

Alexander Arnakis wrote:

> That's it. I'm finished with Obama.

***I wonder if Obama gave the Indian guy who visited Tuesday a DVD of
Gunga Din???

[vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com]

Colin Powell's doctrine was that either you do it right or not at all.
Notice all the legwork with the Afghans saying they will take over
soon. McCrystal had asked for 40-80k. 34k sounds a bit contrived,
unless it reflects availability. The other thing is the Pakis are
doing a lot better than under Musaraf.

As to Singh, I suspect China proved a grand disappointment.

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On Nov 24, 8:14 pm, Alexander Arnakis <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> McClatchy Newspapers is reporting that Obama will announce on Dec. 1st
> that he's sending an additional 34,000 troops to Afghanistan. This is
> near the high end of the options presented to him.
>
> http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/79380.html
>
> This will deplete most of the deployable reserves, and cost billions
> of dollars more, with no end in sight.

This is not really a conflict that we can end this way - even if we
had a military twice the size.
All this can do is buy us time and keep (most of) the overt action
going on off our soil.

>
> I've seen this movie before: LBJ and Vietnam.
>
> That's it. I'm finished with Obama.

He finished with you the day after the election. :) Don't be mad,
all politicians do that.

-V