Word: afghanistans
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...little time for such grousing. "I must say that I hear some impatience from the people who have to produce news every 15 minutes," he said as the first month's fighting neared its end, "but not from the American people." (See TIME's audio slideshow "The War in Afghanistan Up Close...
...Bush is no longer President, Rumsfeld no longer Defense Secretary; R.W. "Johnny" Apple is dead, and so are nearly 900 U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan - 239 of them this year alone. And most Americans have run out of patience with the war, modestly begun eight years ago to overthrow the Taliban regime that had harbored Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda before 9/11. That goal seemed to have been achieved seven years and 11 months ago, when the Taliban were driven from Kabul. But the U.S. and its allies have waged an inconclusive war against the Taliban and their...
...Afghanistan is Obama's war now, so branded after he approved dispatching 21,000 more U.S. troops into battle earlier this year, a move that will raise the U.S. troop level there to 68,000 next month. He also tapped Army general Stan McChrystal as his new Afghan commander to develop a new strategy to win the war. But McChrystal found the security situation there in a dangerous decline, and says he needs 40,000 additional U.S. troops to have the best chance of turning things around. Obama's inner circle is having doubts over whether the President should approve...
...been a participant in this, has been that we've had ample opportunity to provide our best professional military advice," Army general David Petraeus, chief of the U.S. Central Command overseeing the Afghan war, told an Army audience Tuesday. "General McChrystal has been participating in these by video teleconference." Afghanistan, he added, "requires a sustained substantial commitment." But, perhaps more politically astute than McChrystal - who called publicly for reinforcements in Afghanistan Oct. 1 - Petraeus quickly added, "I'm not going to get into whether that means more or less or, you know, what number of forces, enablers, trainers and civilians...
...Obama is in the first year of his first term, and will almost certainly run again in 2012. If Afghanistan is the same sucking chest wound that it is today three years from now, voters are unlikely to grant that wish. But he wouldn't want to face an electorate that had been persuaded that he had "lost Afghanistan." So, amid all the cacophony of conflicting advice about what to do in Afghanistan, Obama's going to have to make this decision all by himself...