I'd be curious to hear other opinions on this situation. Personally, I think we were going to leave behind a "mess" regardless of when we chose to withdraw. Unless, of course, we stayed for another two or three generations. https://buff.ly/2Ct6py0
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I hold no brief for Trump, but trying to wrap what is AFG at the dawn of 2019 around his neck is just a hot take decoupled from what has actually happened the last 17-yrs. OK
@a_a_jackson - let's hear your take on the implications of Obama's December 2009 West Point speech.
Sure, that speech was schizophrenic (you can’t surge and then announce a peace out date, and more besides). But at least it was a plan? There was a logic, however inconsistent or flawed. This just seems like a deeply unstrategic tantrum.
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1. Thank you for the reply! 2. There was no Obama "surge." The planning for the uplift of forces in '08 & '09 started after NATO's culmination in the summer of '07 w/their failure to fill their RW commitment to the CJSOR in RC(S). I was intimately involved in this process /1
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fm USCENTCOM in Tampa to USCENTCOM FWD in Al Udeid to HQ ISAF in Kabul. 3. We briefed Obama's advance team in Kabul prior to the inauguration. All he did was let it continue through the first 10-mo of his Presidency. We culminated in AFG DEC09 w/his speech. It signaled to /2
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