“President Obama has ordered sufficient reinforcements to Afghanistan to execute a war strategy that can succeed.”
Frederick Kagan & William Kristol (Weekly Standard): “President Obama has ordered sufficient reinforcements to Afghanistan to execute a war strategy that can succeed. We applaud this decision. AND WE URGE EVERYONE TO RALLY ROUND THE EFFORT TO DEFEAT OUR ENEMIES AND ACCOMPLISH OBJECTIVES VITAL TO AMERICA’S NATIONAL SECURITY.”
“Obama’s decision, and the speech in which it was announced, were not flawless…..”
“We shouldn’t miss the forest for the trees, however. When all the rhetorical and other problems are stripped away, the fact remains that Obama has, in his first year in office, committed to doubling our forces in Afghanistan and embraced our mission there. Indeed, the plan the president announced on Tuesday features a commendably rapid deployment of reinforcements to the theater, with most of the surge forces arriving over the course of this winter, allowing them to be in position before the enemy’s traditional fighting season begins.”