McClatchy: Reports that US Commander in Afghanistan, General McChrystal could ask for another forty five thousand troops after his review of the strategy in Afghanistan. This is President Obama's LBJ moment, in 1965 LBJ sent in the Marines to Southern Vietnam, that was a start of a war that lasted till 1973, the US lost of over fifty thousand USA Armed Forces Personnel and bought down LBJ in 1968. The Nixon Administration ended the War in 1973 but the damage didn't end till 1975 when the last US helicopter left the US Embassy in Saigon with North Vietnam troops at the gate of the US Embassy. Thus President Obama puts in the troops and stays the course or he gets out, but as stated many times in this blog, that is not an option, Afghanistan would fall back to the Taliban/Terrorists, Pakistan would become a target for the Taliban of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Pakistan is nuclear armed power, India might use its nuclear weapons on a weak Pakistan under threat from the Taliban. Also NATO might as well close up shop, it would be shown to be weak, thus Russia might take a chance and start a war with the Ukraine over the Crimea. Lets not forget the invasion of Georgia in 2008 by Russia. Thus President Obama has found his Just War, he has to be careful that it does not dethrone him as Vietnam finished the political career of LBJ.
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