Many Are Now Starting To Doubt President Obama's Afghan Strategy

BOMB UNIT - A unit from the International Security Assistance Force specialized in explosive disposal investigates an improvised explosive device found under a bridge east of Shindand Airbase in Herat province, Afghanistan, July 19, 2010. Specialists exploded the device from a distant location and did not damage the bridge. International Security Assistance Force photo

Afghan Deadline Is Cutting Two Ways -- David Sanger, New York Times

WASHINGTON — When President Obama announced a new strategy for Afghanistan in December, he argued that by setting a deadline of next summer to begin drawing down troops he would create a sense of urgency for the Afghan government to take the lead in the fight, while acknowledging the limits of America’s patience with the longest war in its history.

But over the past two weeks — on Capitol Hill, in Kabul and even in conversations with foreign leaders — Mr. Obama has been reminded how the goal has become what one senior American military commander called a “double-edged sword,” one that hangs over the White House as surely as it hangs over President Hamid Karzai.

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My Comment: What is there to doubt or question .... President Obama is scrambling and trying his best to lay the groundwork to get out of the country .... and the sooner the better. He is not engaged to fight this war .... he is engaged to make it politically palatable for the U.S. to leave. This is a good article and analysis from Sanger and the New York Times .... read it all.