Fox News: Reports on a meeting between the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mullen and the US Commander in Afghanistan General McChrystal, the article states that Mullen will agree that McChrystal needs between thirty and forty thousand troops in Afghanistan. Thus President Obama has Afghanistan and Iran on his plate, never mind health care reform, am reading the McChrystal report at the minute and as stated in previous post can understand why Obama is having third thoughts, I would also, but the time for third thoughts was at the start of the Administration, that's the problem when you make one war the Just War and the other war the bad war, in this case Iraq. At the start of the Administration Obama sent out another twenty one thousand troops, taking the US forces up to seventy thousand troops in theatre, now that the US military is asking for thousands more the West Wing is getting wobbly, the major player for the reduction of troops is VP Biden, he is opposed by the Secretaries of State and Defence and the US military. As Obama has sold out Poland and Czech Republic already can he afford to sell out Afghanistan, if he does wobble Iran will know it has clear had to go nuclear, and then we have an Israeli strike on Iran. Thus the Afghanistan decision will ramifications beyond Afghanistan, it could decide the fate of Pakistan, Israel and Iran.
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