Roanoke Times, 9/19/09, Pg 6: Delays (by Obama) in deciding future troop strength are hampering operational planning, officials say.
General McChrystal, the top US commander in Afghanistan, told NOT to submit request for additional troops because “the administration isn’t ready for it”!
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090921/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_afghanistan
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/21/mcchrystal-failure-forces-afghanistan/
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Our Commander-in-Chief of unilateral disarmament
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-commander-of-unilateral.html
has instructed the military NOT to send him the requirements to execute HIS strategy for the Afghanistan War! Obama has stated that this is a war of necessity and that HIS strategy is to place troops in each village as friends of the people. Kind of like being “community organizers” in Chicago.
The troops have been told not to disturb the poppy fields because it upsets the farmers.
The troops have been told not to fire on enemy if they are located close to people in civilian clothes. The enemy is in civilian clothes!
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Another challenge with this approach is that by splitting up our troops into small village groups they are vulnerable to attack by small groups of terrorists that indeed will infiltrate the village people isolate and cutoff our troops and be immune to our artillery and bomb attack and reinforcement. This is a strategy for success? This only has a chance to work after the terrorists are defeated as a coordinated fighting force.
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There are 850 cities, towns and villages in Afghanistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cities,_towns_and_villages_in_Afghanistan
Given that an infantry company of 150 men each is the smallest independent operational unit deployed, a minimum of 125,000 dispersed troops would be deployed in the “hoods”. That would require at least twice that number for support, logistics and convoy protection for a total of 375,000 troops.
There are now 60,000 US troops in Afghanistan a far stretch from 375,000.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,552708,00.html
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And where are the coalition of NATO troops that were committed to “combat roles” in Afghanistan?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/05/nato-responsible-for-afghanistan.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/04/obamas-afghanistan-war.html
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And where is the left-wing and Democrat hue and cry for measured checkpoints and a defined exit strategy? Apparently that only applied to George Bush!
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/07/wheres-exit-strategy-and-checkpoints.html
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MORE HOPE AND CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
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