Mr. President, Take Your Time on Afghanistan

Mr. President, Take Your Time on Afghanistan – Joseph L. Galloway, McClatchy Newspapers.

President Barack Obama has yet to decide where we’re going and what we’re doing in Afghanistan, but if the flood of leaks this week is any indicator, he at least has decided what he isn’t going to do. He isn’t going to be rushed into making such an important decision.

He seemingly is un—to buy a pig in a poke from any of the players – not from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top US military commander in Afghanistan, who wants another 40,000 to 80,000 American troops; not from his own national security wizards who’ve proffered four different pigs in four different pokes; not from Vice President Joe Biden, who wants to leave the fight to Special Forces and unmanned Predators. The word is that none of the options contains what the president wants to see – an estimate of how many more years beyond the eight already invested would be needed and an exit strategy…

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