Officials with the White House confirmed that they are “not ready” to endorse the latest plan to dramatically increase the size of the Afghan military, citing concerns about the major amounts of money it takes to support the large, but not particularly effective fighting force.
The current plan eyes the creation of a 305,000 soldier security force by October, but traditionally whenever the deadline for a goal is close officials just push it back another year and add a bunch more troops. The new targeted officials are floating is 378,000.
Each new goal dramatically increases the amount of money the US and other nations pump into the training program, and encourages Afghan officials to accept even less battle-ready recruits to meet their goals. This has made the force even less reliable and more prone to shooting their allies.
The Afghan Army is already larger than the nation could ever hope to afford, and the goals to make it ever larger seem to be about having a built in form of spending increases every year as hoping that the force will be decisive in some future battle.
This, I'm sure is a ruse.
It's a set up.
We hear the same thing each time there is an increase of troops or funding. It confuses the liberal supporters of Obama and throws them off balance.
It's the same thing Bush did …others before him….you hear that the "troops are being sent home", then you hear 10,000 troops are coming back…and they do….but 20,000 new troops are then sent in.
And that's how it goes.
It's happening with other alleged items like:
"Healthcare"…the insurance companies love it.
"Social Security" …Obama just reduced the amount of money put into social security as a COMPROMISE! to Republicans for "not increasing the tax rate" for the elite wealthy. The Republicans win at both ends. Obama is not a liberal democrat.
"Ending the war"…leaving 50,000 troops forever in Iraq and expanding the wars to Pakistan.
Once again. I have to repeat….Lockheed Martin runs the social security program. All of the government with few exceptions has been privatized.
It's all a play, and everyone is being played.
A US soldier was killed by mortar fire at the Kandahar air field on Wednesday the 19th of Jan. Three US soldiers died one week earlier in an IED attack in Kandahar on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011.
This is what is called a militarism regime doing what it can and using all social and political maneuverings to boost wars.., if you have doubt about it ask Paul Wolfowitz and others Like George W. Bush and his family who actively participating and pushing the matter further.., you want to stop this madness.., then the Attorney general needs to act and prosecute these people for war crime.
Well, we all 'know' that poor old Dave Petraeus was lo-balled last Spring when he got the 30 000 reinforcements he said he'd need to tip that Afghan cow for good.
So after the massive campaign to root the Taliban out of places where they were, but not in any numbers to warrant such lavish campaigns, the General is back with his soft cover in hand to point out that, without more boots on the ground, again, there is that likelihood that Obama could well become the first Democratic president to go losing a war.
After all he doesn't have the 'Alfred E. Neumann persona' to go declaring a vict'ry where there isn't one. Or the military cheering section to go "Whoo! Whoo! We Won!" as they load the last AFV onto the flatbed for the run into Pakistan or Turkmenistan. The Praetorians will be first to add 'loser' to his other 'commendations'.
So Obama has no 'choice' but to sign on for Petraeus' next 'Kaiserschlacht'.
That Obama and his team of 'military geniuses' is "not ready" would be the understated obvious. I don't know, bring up team Obama and 'craven' comes to mind right off.