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George’s Bottom Line
November 11, 2009
That’s what he wants to “drill down” on in what is likely to be the President’s final meeting with his war counsel today.
One close aide explained that Obama “wants to see more intellectual energy” focused on how this mission ends, saying that the President has insisted that “we’re not going to be in Afghanistan for another 8 years.”
Another said that Obama wants a clear picture of the “American bridge” out of Afghanistan. He doesn’t have it yet. He’s not satisfied with what he’s heard so far. The President will press for answers today.
Angry at Monday’s CBS report (and the military sources who seem to be pushing it) that the President has already settled on an option that would send almost all the troops Gen. McChrystal has requested for Afghanistan, aides insist that Obama has not told anyone what he wants to do – and that he’s likely to continue to mull his options as he travels across Asia over the next 8 days. …
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/11/obama-looking-for-offramps-out-of-afghanistan.html
President Obama is not looking for a “100 year war”. An “end-game” is being sought for all the wars “nursed” by the neocons. A plan is incomplete if it is missing the “end game”.
The neocons put the Afghanistan war on the back-burner while they started their new Iraq war. Neocons love wars. The Afghanistan war was automated so as not to put too heavy a troop demand on a system that depended upon voluntary troop enlisting. Although they loved wars, they did not dare raise the specter of restarting the draft.
So, the neocons sent the troops to their new Iraq war and the drones to Afghanistan. The drones came – they saw and they fired. Surely there was at least one terrorist in that large gathering of men, women and children.
It is unlikely that an American – visiting Afghanistan would choose to be near a large gathering of Afghanistan people – because drones don’t detect terrorists “too good”.
With drones fighting the Afghanistan war, no serious “end game” thinking was necessary.
And joejolly figured out a possible “end game” for the Iraq war. joejolly figured that the Iraq war would end:
When the last barrel of Iraqi oil was sold Or when the last American soldier – standing in Iraq – fell.
The neocons are in a class by themselves.
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