Monday, October 19, 2009

Karl Rove Responds To White House Excuse For Indecision In Afghanistan

at 9:34 PM

2 comments:

  1. HamsterOctober 22, 2009 at 8:09 AM

    The Bush administration is trying to lay spin their failure in Afghanistan and lay it on the new administration.
    The fact is that after Bush decided to invade Iraq, Afghanistan became a footnote. For every 5 soldiers we sent to Iraq, we sent 1 to Afghanistan.
    Bush's entire focus was winning the war in Iraq. He falsely believed that the Pakistani government would take care of defeating the Taliban. We know know that the Pakistans instead tried to make deals with the Taliban in exchange for Peace.

    In 2007, as Senators were demanding to know why the Taliban were retaking much of Afghanistan, The U.S. military's top officer acknowledged .... that for all the importance of preventing Afghanistan from again harboring al-Qaida terrorists, Washington's first priority was Iraq.

    "In Afghanistan, we do what we can," said Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "In Iraq, we do what we must."

    Mullen, testifying with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on the effort to stabilize Afghanistan, said that war is "by design and necessity, an economy-of-force operation. There is no getting around that. Our main focus, militarily, in the region and in the world right now is rightly and firmly in Iraq."

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-12-11-3963072919_x.htm

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  2. stevelacknerOctober 22, 2009 at 5:45 PM

    Accepting your argument as accurate, there is still a problem. You say that Bush argued that Iraq was the central front in the war on terror and gave it that focus. Obama, on the other hand, campaigned on Iraq being the "war of choice" and Afghanistan being the "war of necessity." Yet he has decided to vote "present" on the war he incessantly argued was a in fact the "war of necessity." For that, there is no justification.

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