VIDEO: Gen. Petraeus Endorses Obama’s Plan for July 2011 Aghanistan Bug-Out?

posted at 2:37 pm on June 24, 2010 by The Other McCain
[ National Defense ]   

From CNN (apologies for the ad you have to watch first):

Did the CNN reporter over-interpret the general’s remark?

I asked him if he sees himself doing anything to change the 2011 deadline to begin troop withdrawal. We’ve heard, already, Republicans are saying that they hope he does away with it. Democrats are saying, “No, no, no, we’ve got to keep it.” The answer was, “No. No. As I said, I support the president’s policy and I will also provide the best professional military advice as we conduct assessments.”

Which is not exactly the same as, “Yeah, we’re gonna cut and run.” The pace and scale of withdrawals scheduled to begin in July 2011 is still entirely up for grabs.

Keep in mind that the general is strictly about the military, while Obama is strictly about politics. Under the rubric of “conducting assessments,” it’s not difficult to envision a scenario in June 2011 where Petraeus tells Obama, “Look, chief, we’d better go slow here. The Taliban are just biding their time, and if we start pulling out entire brigades of our troops, you’re probably three months away from a Tet Offensive situation, maybe a total Mogadishu-type crisis. We can trim back a little, draw down our total deployment by about three or four thousand without hurting our basic operational capacity, but beyond that, it could get dicey.”

That’s a win-win, and if the Left or the media give Obama a hard time about the slow pace of withdrawal, his answer is that the situation has changed, he’s “listening to the commanders on the ground,” seeking “a sustainable peace,” blah blah blah.

BHO as LBJ, in other words. And your average independent “swing” voter — to say nothing of your average CNN reporter – is too stupid to figure out they’ve been suckered in a bait-and-switch scam.

And McChrystal? Just another liberal under the bus. Sucker.

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