Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 12:31 pm
From here. To summarize, the general in charge of U.S. ops in Afghanistan said in London that not sending more troops is "shortsighted." Obama's nat'l security adviser gently informs him to shut the fuck up. Then this dude chimes in...
& where do you plan to get these imaginary, magical Afghan troops? From their stable, incorruptible, well-funded military that hasn't been in rotting in a third-world country for the past few decades? How the fuck did you get to be Chairman of the ARMED SERVICES committee?
& wasn't <s>the second coming of Christ</s> Obama playing up sending more troops to Afghanistan & even Pakistan during the election?
"I would not commit to more combat troops at this time," said Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich. "There's a lot of other things that need to be done to show resolve. What we need a surge of is Afghan troops."
& where do you plan to get these imaginary, magical Afghan troops? From their stable, incorruptible, well-funded military that hasn't been in rotting in a third-world country for the past few decades? How the fuck did you get to be Chairman of the ARMED SERVICES committee?
& wasn't <s>the second coming of Christ</s> Obama playing up sending more troops to Afghanistan & even Pakistan during the election?