Obama maps exit plan, says NYTimes.
WEST POINT, N.Y. — President Obama announced Tuesday that he would speed 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in coming months, but he vowed to start bringing American forces home in the middle of 2011...
link: Obama Adds Troops, but Maps Exit Plan - NYTimes.com
But read down just a little further:
Senior administration officials suggested, however, that any initial withdrawal starting in mid-2011 could be very limited, depending on the military situation at that point.
In fact, withdrawing just one guy in 2011 would would fulfill that wimpy pledge and there was not a word, apparently (I haven't finished reading the speech) about when the so-called withdrawal would end.
In other words, no map at all, or none that I can see. A plan without a plan.
So he's saying there's a plan but not saying what the plan is (the righties would screech about giving away secrets to the enemy), and he's giving McChrystal troops but not all the troops he wanted (the lefties would screech about that, especially since Obama opposed Bush's "surge" in Iraq, or claimed he did). We all go home with half a baby here.
Except Obama. He goes home with his very own whole war.
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