Sep 23 2009
General McChrystal May Resign
Hat Tip: Rex Babin
According to Nancy Youssef, the staff close to the General has stated that unless some decision is made by Obama soon, to comply with the General’s request for 45,000 new troops, McChrystal would resign, “before he’d stand behind a faltering policy that he thought would endanger his forces or the strategy.”
Even though the Obama Administration sent Bruce Riedel (Brookings Institute) to Afghanistan to develop a strategy, it had no idea what resources might be required. The cost of the war in Afghanistan is now 6.7 billion/month, and Obama is too busy making infomercials, appearing on David Letterman and playing golf, to worry about the soldiers, who can’t even shoot back.
Here he is criticizing Bush & McCain about Afghanistan:
