Obama to announce 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he’s called “a war of necessity” in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy.
I don’t have much to say about this: I won’t try to parse the strategy or the necessity, since I’m not in a position to really know. But. Since I wrote about this rumor yesterday:
An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement’s foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has offered the Taliban control of the Kandahar, Helmand, Oruzgan, Kunar and Nuristan provinces in return for a halt to the Taliban missile attacks on U.S. bases.
Since I wrote about that, I figured I should say something about this. At the very least, it implies a commitment to victory; a commitment that the U.S. can’t be chased away from a fight. In the long run, that’s a much better message to show the world than any touchy-feely multi-cultural “we’re all in this together” liberalspeak.
God bless the troops and their families, and kudos to Obama. See it through, Mr. President.
Via Memeorandum.
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