Bloodthirsty Liberal

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After everyone else had heard what General Stanley McChrystal needs for his mission to succeed in Afghanistan, the Obama administration took official custody today of the report that requests a significant troop increase for the Af-Pak theater. However, Barack Obama will not officially get to see it for a while. The Pentagon says they will hold his request, officially, until Obama officially makes an official decision about the officially official policy he wants to officially pursue in the war:

The commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has submitted a request for more troops, a spokesman said Saturday, but the Pentagon will hold it while President Barack Obama decides what strategy to pursue.

General Stanley McChrystal hand delivered his long-awaited request to U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Admiral James Stavridis, said spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Tadd Sholtis.

“At the end of that meeting General McChrystal did provide a copy of the force requirements to Admiral Mullen on the U.S. side and Admiral Stavridis on the NATO side,” Sholtis said after McChrystal returned from the meeting at an air base in Germany. …

The White House says it wants to review the entire strategy for the region before considering McChrystal’s request.

“Right now the focus is on the strategic assessment itself. It (the troop request) will be shelved until such time that the White House is ready,” a defense official said in Washington.

Didn’t he just get through telling the assembled murderers and hacks at the United Nations how much he had accomplished in just nine months—that he personally had changed the character of the entire nation, purged it of its collective guilt?

Then how the [bleep] come he can’t decide what he wants to do about Quagmirestan? He’s got a recommendation from his hand-picked general, he’s got those invaluable nine months under his belt—he’s got American soldiers dying by the day—and he wants to sleep on it?!

I understand it’s difficult, but this is your effing job, Humpty Dumbs**t. Get some recommendations and make a decision. Indecision wastes time and lives.

Me, I’d say the place isn’t worth it, and I’d follow Ralph Peters advice of leaving a rapid reaction force to whack the little Taliban moles when they raise their little turbaned heads, but you make your own choice. Just make it.