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Gates, Confirming Plans to Retire, Defends Obama War Policy
By David Wood - Politics DailyDefense Secretary Robert Gates, who has made clear his desire to leave office next year, said he has "made up my mind'' about when to offer his resignation. But he wouldn't say when, and he declined to say whether he intends to be in office next July for a critical strategic review of the war in Afghanistan. Speaking with reporters at the Pentagon Thursday, Gates firmly disputed a picture drawn by journalist Bob Woodward of the Obama administration in bitter disarray over Afghan war strategy. And he snapped at a reporter who asked if he was confident that President Obama had devised a war ...
Woodward Book: Obama Team Split on Afghanistan
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(Sept. 22) -- Frustrated 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 journalist Bob Woodward. In "Obama's War" -- Woodward's meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo 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. ...
The Long War: Afghanistan After July 2011
By David Wood - Politics DailyOn my first reporting trip to Afghanistan, beginning in Jan. 2002, I lived for several months with 30 soldiers in a leaky tent heated against the bitter cold with a kerosene-fired pot-bellied stove. Waiting to be airlifted into the mountains to fight the Taliban, the soldiers and I shuffled through rutted snow to another sagging tent for chow and down a beaten path to the hastily built (and unheated) plywood latrine. We washed and shaved outside. The U.S. Army colonel who ran the base told me that no permanent structures would be built there; the policy of the Bush administration was to ...
Europe to Obama: Don't Count On Us for Many More Troops
By William Boston - AOL NewsBERLIN (Dec. 2) - In his speech Tuesday night announcing 30,000 more U.S. troops for Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said he was "confident" that allies would join in the escalation for an obvious reason: "what's at stake is the security of our allies, and the common security of the world." He is likely to be sorely disappointed with the response, since Europe seems neither militarily equipped nor politically disposed to significantly up its stake in what is still widely seen here as an American war. Of the roughly 110,000 foreign troops now in Afghanistan, 68,000 are American. The ...
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