Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy

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It appears a decision has been made on Afghanistan.

President Obama has conducted a final meeting on his military review for Afghanistan, administration officials said, and he is planning to explain his decision in an address to the nation next Tuesday.

“After completing a rigorous final meeting, President Obama has the information he wants and needs to make his decision, and he will announce that decision within days,” Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said Tuesday morning.

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The conversation settled around sending about 30,000 more American troops, two officials said, the first of which would deploy early next year to be in place in southern or eastern Afghanistan by the spring. The troop reinforcements would most likely be sent in waves, according to an official speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss war strategy.

The entire Afghanistan situation is a lose-lose situation for Obama.  History as well as the last eight years tells us that this war is almost impossible to win.  Yet pulling out leaves Afghans in the hands of the Taliban. As well it would weaken the president’s national security credentials and leave him open to claims that he is not fighting the war on terror.

Sending in more troops will only extend the war and put more American soldiers in harms way.  There is no immediate clear way out of this disastrous war and there probably never will be.

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