The firs Official meeting between the new UK PM David Cameron and President Obama, the President stated the following, “ Now, I want to say that all of us in the United States deeply value the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom. And we have been very impressed with the leadership that David Cameron has shown thus far…..we had a extensive discussion about Afghanistan, and the alignment between our two countries in recognizing we have a serious threat to our safety and security that has to be addressed -- that we recognize the enormous sacrifices that both British troops and U.S. troops have been making for some time now, but we are convinced that we have the right strategy to provide the time and the space for the Afghan government to build up capacity over the next several months and years. And this period that we’re in right now is going to be critical both on the political front and on the military front, and there’s going to extremely close consultation between our two countries so that we can create a situation in which Afghanistan and Pakistan are able to maintain their effective security and those areas are not able to be used as launching pads for attacks against our people. ” In many respects both Obama and Cameron want out of Afghanistan, one can argue that PM Cameron has smelled the coffee when it comes to Afghanistan and wants out thus his recent remarks that he would like to see the UK out of Afghanistan by the next UK General Election in 2015. In the case of Obama he has a problem, with the sacking of General McChrystal he has placed the hero of Iraq charge of Afghanistan, thus General Petraeus in 2011 can go to Obama and say that he is winning and needs another year, thus the Obama timetable to withdraw troops form Afghanistan in 2011 would be placed on ice, Petraeus won Iraq and Obama could face a very hostile Republican Congress next that year that does not support announced timetables for getting out of Afghanistan. As long as the US is in Afghanistan the UK will be there, also Pakistan with its nuclear weapons has to be kept stable, thus the US and the UK will be in Afghanistan post 2015 folks, the question is when we leave will we have made any difference, lets hope General Petraeus gets lucky again folks. In Wars you need talent but also luck folks, we know that Petraeus has the talent lets hope the Gods of War smile down on NATO.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Obama on the UK Special Relationship and Afghanistan
The firs Official meeting between the new UK PM David Cameron and President Obama, the President stated the following, “ Now, I want to say that all of us in the United States deeply value the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom. And we have been very impressed with the leadership that David Cameron has shown thus far…..we had a extensive discussion about Afghanistan, and the alignment between our two countries in recognizing we have a serious threat to our safety and security that has to be addressed -- that we recognize the enormous sacrifices that both British troops and U.S. troops have been making for some time now, but we are convinced that we have the right strategy to provide the time and the space for the Afghan government to build up capacity over the next several months and years. And this period that we’re in right now is going to be critical both on the political front and on the military front, and there’s going to extremely close consultation between our two countries so that we can create a situation in which Afghanistan and Pakistan are able to maintain their effective security and those areas are not able to be used as launching pads for attacks against our people. ” In many respects both Obama and Cameron want out of Afghanistan, one can argue that PM Cameron has smelled the coffee when it comes to Afghanistan and wants out thus his recent remarks that he would like to see the UK out of Afghanistan by the next UK General Election in 2015. In the case of Obama he has a problem, with the sacking of General McChrystal he has placed the hero of Iraq charge of Afghanistan, thus General Petraeus in 2011 can go to Obama and say that he is winning and needs another year, thus the Obama timetable to withdraw troops form Afghanistan in 2011 would be placed on ice, Petraeus won Iraq and Obama could face a very hostile Republican Congress next that year that does not support announced timetables for getting out of Afghanistan. As long as the US is in Afghanistan the UK will be there, also Pakistan with its nuclear weapons has to be kept stable, thus the US and the UK will be in Afghanistan post 2015 folks, the question is when we leave will we have made any difference, lets hope General Petraeus gets lucky again folks. In Wars you need talent but also luck folks, we know that Petraeus has the talent lets hope the Gods of War smile down on NATO.
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