I can hear it now
From the liberal left, the Daily Kos, Huffington Post, etc. “Obama’s Vietnam”, “Quagmire”, etc. etc.
http://www.military.com/news/article/10k-more-gis-may-be-afghanistanbound.html
They military-hating, unpatriotic, liberal left is going to jump all over the President on this one.
Is this a good thing? Who knows? It all depends if they are given clear guidance and a mission, along with an infrastructure and supply system that has to be ready to support such an influx. If they are sent in, they need to be sent in to Win. As my buddy Uncle Jimbo says “wars are won or lost”. These guys need to be given clear guidance, not have their hands tied and allowed to execute the mission just like the 24th MEU was last year.
I can tell you that is this is being leaked out already, that there are lots of people already working on this buy getting supplies in country, outposts built, extra rations ordered, etc. This type of thing is not decided on and acted on overnight.
One quote in this article really stands out, But Flournoy said the U.S. mission in Afghanistan will be complete when “the Afghans and Pakistanis have both the capability and the will to deal with the remaining threat themselves.”
Why is that interesting? Go to the links below and see where this blog stated the same thing back on March 21st and 13th respectively.
http://www.bouhammer.com/2009/03/mckiernan-outlines-challenges-to-military-mission-in-afghanistan/
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