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Obama at Odds With Advisers on Afghan Exit Strategy, Woodward Book Reports
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyFrustrated that his top military advisers failed to provide him an exit plan for Afghanistan, President Obama crafted his own strategy, according to a new book by Bob Woodward. In "Obama's Wars" -- Woodward's meeting-by-meeting account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review -- the president stressed that the plan to add 30,000 troops in a short-term escalation "needs to be . . . about how we're going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan. Everything we're doing has to be focused on how we're going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint. It's in our national security interest. ...
Petraeus for President? He Says, 'No way!'
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe question has been raised more than once, especially in the blogosphere: Will Gen. David Petraeus, the architect of the 2007 surge in Iraq and now the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, run for president? And it was put to him directly Sunday on the NBC News program "Meet the Press." In answering the question, the modern general echoed two Civil War generals. The question came up when the NBC program's moderator, David Gregory, asked Petraeus, "What are you reading?" The general responded that he had recently been reading about the historiography of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and how ...
Rogue Afghan Soldier Kills 3 British Troops
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (July 13) -- A rogue Afghan soldier fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a NATO patrol today, killing three British troops in an incident likely to renew doubts about the reliability of the Afghan army. Four soldiers were wounded, according to a military spokesman. It is not known whether the renegade soldier was working for the Taliban or a local warlord or was simply taking revenge for an unknown grievance. A statement issued by NATO said the attack took place early in the morning at a joint NATO/Afghan army base in southern Afghanistan. Sky News reported that the dead soldiers are ...
Blunt-Spoken General to Lead US Central Command
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 8) -- The general picked to oversee two wars and lead troops in the most strategically sensitive region in the world is sometimes known as "Mad Dog." At other times he's been "Chaos" and "Warrior Monk." Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis was named to take over U.S. Central Command today by Defense Secretary Robert Gates because of his "strategic insight and independent thinking." If confirmed, the head of Joint Forces Command -- who had planned to retire within weeks -- would replace Gen. David Petraeus, who recently became commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Manuel Balce ...
U.S. Discovers Nearly $1 Trillion in Mineral Reserves in Afghanistan
By David Wood - Politics DailyPentagon officials hailed today the discovery of vast untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan as unalloyed good news for that country's U.S.-backed fledgling government, struggling with poverty, pervasive corruption and a bloody insurgency. The officials confirmed a report in The New York Times today that teams of U.S. government geologists and Defense Department officials have discovered massive deposits of iron, gold, cobalt, copper and critical industrial minerals that could be worth as much as $1 trillion. But as news of the discovery spread, it was unclear whether Afghanistan will ...
Gen. Petraeus Teaches a Lesson -- 'With Respect' -- to Sen. Scott Brown
By David Wood - Politics DailyGen. David Petraeus to Sen. Scott Brown: No confusion here, senator. Perhaps Brown, the newly elected conservative GOP senator from Massachusetts and a brand-new member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, shouldn't have chosen to take on Petraeus, the smoothly articulate four-star commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East. Brown, of course, won the seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy, whose office he now occupies in the Capitol. Distrustful of government ("Government is too big,'' his Senate Web site explains), he nonetheless has served almost 30 years in the Massachusetts ...
Gen. Petraeus Says US Troops Won't Go to Yemen
By not in system - AOL NewsTAMPA, Florida (Jan. 10) -- The U.S. military does not intend to put ground troops in Yemen, a country where al Qaeda operatives have become an increasing threat, Gen. David Petraeus told CNN in an interview to be aired Sunday. However, the United States plans to more than double its security assistance funding to Yemen, from $70 million to more than $150 million, Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour at CENTCOM headquarters in Tampa. Petraeus, who recently returned from his visit to the Arab nation, said Yemen's foreign minister was "quite clear that Yemen ...
McCain Warns that Rejection of More Troops Would be 'Historic' Error
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailySen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, today urged President Obama to move with "deliberate speed" on a decision to increase troops in Afghanistan as his generals have requested, saying that to disregard their advice would be an "error of historic proportions." ...
Who Will Save Obama's Backside on Afghanistan? David Petraeus?
By David Corn - Politics DailyDid you hear about Bill Clinton and Sophia Loren's breasts? I'll get to that in a moment. First, Afghanistan. The war was there in the news cycle -- for what seemed a few nanoseconds on Monday -- after The Washington Post published an unclassified version of the assessment of the war submitted to the Pentagon by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces there. As I've noted elsewhere, though McChrystal claims victory remains possible in Afghanistan -- if a new strategy is adopted, additional troops and civilian resources are deployed, and the Afghan government and ...
Obama Says U.S. Losing in Afghanistan, Seeks Negotiations with Taliban
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn an interview with the New York Times, President Barack Obama said that the United States is losing the war in Afghanistan, and hinted that he may order talks with elements of the Taliban in hopes of turning the situation around. The president did not make clear whether his sentiments on the war effort represented the consensus of military leaders on the progress of the U.S.-led fight or if it was his own assessment. Obama has ordered a review of policy in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan with an eye toward developing a new strategy in the region.On the campaign trail, President Obama ...
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