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Obama Unveils Direction in Afghanistan
Published by Pamela Gentry on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 12:15 am.
By Pamela Gentry, Senior Political Analyst
Dec. 1, 2009 – The long-awaited strategy on how President Obama will address the war in Afghanistan will be unveiled to the American people on Tuesday.
Before the primetime address, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are scheduled to meet with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the Congressional leadership to discuss the administration’s direction.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked what key issues the president will share with the American people. “The President’s speech tomorrow will discuss our relationship with Pakistan and touch on, going back to the very beginning of this administration, in a renewed engagement diplomatically with the Pakistanis,” he said.
“I think our relationship is stronger and our efforts are stronger in dealing with that as a result of that engagement and diplomacy. The President will build on that and talk about the importance of them in the region tomorrow night.”
The president has authorized as many as 35,000 more troops but is also vowing there isn’t an open-ended commitment. It’s not clear if he will outline a specific exit strategy, a timeline for troop drawdown, or list benchmarks for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Gibbs is confident the president will be direct with the American people on how he plans to move forward.
“I think the President will reiterate tomorrow what I’ve said a number of times, which is that this is not an open-ended commitment; that we are there to partner with the Afghans, to train the Afghan national security forces, the army and the police, so that they can provide the security for their country and wage the battle against an unpopular insurgency in that country. That’s, I’d say, first and foremost, our primary mission there.”
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Obama sucks. he needs to resign
President Obama is making a huge mistake if he believes that deploying 35,000 new U.S. troops to Afghanistan will make the U.S. safer from terrrorism.
Al Qaeda-inspired bombings in Madrid and London and a series of terrorist plots here in the United States prove that having boots on the ground in Afganistan has not reduced the danger of terrorist violence.
Cameron Turner
“Turner’s Two Cents”
WRONG WAR AT THE WRONG TIME AND MAKEING THE WRONG MOVE!
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OK…OK…. So did Obama just admit that President Bush made the right move in invading Afghan? And if your the enemy over there wouldnt you just calm down until 2011 and then strike when the U.S “starts to withdraw?” So many worries about this. To the lame person I think they will see this as “I told you Obama is a great President,” but to me….Im worried!!!
Davin Said sucks. he needs to resign.
Please come up with a better and more logical argument.
What would you do in the president’s place?
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