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Always To The Right on Sunday, October 11, 2009 4:12:29 PM
Sources within both the intelligence and military communities tell McClatchy
that Barack Obama’s White House has not been honest about the risks of
moving away from a robust strategy of counterinsurgency in
Afghanistan. Obama and his advisers have begun publicly discussing the
Taliban as a moderate alternative to al-Qaeda in terms of enemies, but
the latest intelligence shows just the opposite. Taliban leadership
and AQ have integrated even more tightly than ever since 9/11 and act
in concert on strategy and tactics
Bob Kerrey openly wonders why the White House has begun to tread the ground of retreat, in an op-ed for today’s Wall Street Journal
If the military and intel communities are telling Obama that the idea of a “moderate Taliban” is false — and Lara Logan emphatically agrees
— then where did this idea arise in the first place? It comes not from
Afghanistan, but from the left wing of the Democratic Party. They have
increased pressure on Obama to get out of Afghanistan, and the Nobel
Peace Prize was specifically intended to help in that effort. The Left
wants a way out of the war, and the Obama administration has begun
floating trial balloons to help sell this as something other than a
retreat, if Obama goes along with it.