Why Has President Obama Waited Almost 9 Months To Meet With His Joint Chiefs To Discuss Afghan War Strategy?

President Barack Obama meets on Afghanistan with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the White House Situation Room on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. (Pete Souza / White House Photo)

Obama Seeking Options On Forces -- Washington Post

President looks to send fewer additional troops.

President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late Friday, with one adding that some of the alternatives would allow Obama to send fewer new troops than the roughly 40,000 requested by his top commander.

Obama met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the White House on Friday, holding a 90-minute discussion that centered on the strain on the force after eight years of war in two countries. The meeting -- the first of its kind with the chiefs of the Navy, Army, Marine Corps and Air Force, who were not part of the president's war council meetings on Afghanistan in recent weeks -- prompted Obama to request another such meeting before he announces a decision on sending additional troops, the officials said.

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My Comment: Wars in two countries, and it is only NOW that he is meeting all of the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in one room. What is worse, is that upon realizing that he may not have all the information necessary to make a final decision on Afghanistan .... he decides to make a future arrangement at some undetermined time for another meeting.

Our European allies are right .... he is not focused on this conflict. Take away the rhetoric, there is nothing there.