Monday, January 23, 2012

Gen. David Petraeus: ‘The troops can’t quit’

Gen. David Petraeus: ‘The troops can’t quit’

“It’s ‘open the envelope time,’ ” Gen. David Petraeus told his security team as his SUV approached the White House on June 21, 2011, for his final meeting with President Obama on the drawdown of forces from Afghanistan. Petraeus had returned to Washington from his command in Kabul for consultations with Obama on the drawdown, and for a Senate committee hearing on his nomination to become the next director of the CIA. On the way from the Pentagon, retired Army general Jack Keane, a mentor and former vice chief of staff of the Army, e-mailed Petraeus with rumors of what he was hearing: The White House was going to recommend 10,000 troops depart by the end of 2011, with the remaining 23,000 surge forces out by the summer of 2012, a far more drastic timetable for withdrawal than Petraeus had recommended.

THE WASHINGTON POST

TONY DIGIROLAMO- WHY SHOULD OBAMA, THE CICOTUS, LISTEN TO THE GENERALS IN THE FIELD.

I mean after all Obama said Afghanistan was the right war to fight because Islamic radicals designed the attack on the US on 9/11from that country.

But there's an election in November and the Patraeus time table doesn't compute with Saul Alinsky socialist agenda.

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