U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton answer questions during a panel session at the 48th Munich Security Conference in Munich, Feb. 4, 2012. DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeleyObama Administration’s Afghanistan Endgame Gets Off To Bumpy Start -- Washington Post
With war fatigue growing and an election looming, the Obama administration has bumpily embarked on its endgame in Afghanistan.
In recent weeks, closed-door strategizing over Taliban peace talks, the pace of NATO’s combat handover and withdrawal, and the future of U.S. relations with Afghanistan and Pakistan have suddenly become part of the public and political debate.
But revelations about plans already in motion have emerged sooner than the administration has been prepared to explain them, complicating efforts to turn them into a coherent whole and build support.
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My Comment: Off to a bumpy start .... now that is an understatement. I am not in the inside of the Obama administration, but from where I am standing they are giving mixed and confusing messages that is frustrating everyone with the exception of the Taliban .... and even they had to come out publicly that they had NOT sent a peace letter to President Obama as the US government had implied.
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