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This is how many time our Commander in Cheif has spoken to the military leader in Afganistan. BRILLIANT!
 
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Are you basing that off his comments on 60 minutes? I didn't actually take that as a bad thing. Of course if Obama were not being briefed on the status there, this could be a problem. However, we know that the Pentagon is briefing him.

I took his comments to suggest that the President was not directly pressuring McChrystal into making one set of recommendations in his report to the Presiden on the troop status.
 
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TennTradition said:
Are you basing that off his comments on 60 minutes? I didn't actually take that as a bad thing. Of course if Obama were not being briefed on the status there, this could be a problem. However, we know that the Pentagon is briefing him. I agree

I took his comments to suggest that the President was not directly pressuring McChrystal into making one set of recommendations in his report to the Presiden on the troop status.
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How can BHO be coming up with a new plan for the region, if he is not talking to the commander in the field?
My point is that this should be on the top of his "to do" list instead of all the social programs that are taking up all his time.

I took the comments to mean that McChrystal is shocked by the lack of communication from the Commander in Cheif.
 
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Like I said, I didn't take it that way. IIRC, the reporter insinuated that he is having to develop a strategy for Afghanistan and there is pressure that this plan not involve increasing troop levels. Wasn't he then asked how often he talks to the President? I took his answer as trying to assert that his proposal was not being influenced politically by the President.

As far as Obama formulating his plan for the region, McChrystal just gave him his initial assessment in what seemed to me when I read it to be a very well-written document (though I don't have much to base this on, I haven't read others like this so I don't know what the standard is).

I'm not sure that the President should be talking to him a lot right now. McChrystal needs to figure out what his recommendations are and make those to the President...there doesn't need to be a lot of back and forth until those recommendations have been officially made, IMO. Otherwise, you end up with an entirely politically crafted response, which is not what we need. That isn't to say that the military plan can't be political. McChrystal knows that winning the war there means winning the local political battle (e.g., don't lose what local support you have or you lose the war). It's just a different kind of politics.
 
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I may be remembering this incorrectly, I've deleted it from my DVR and I can't find a transcript now....my apologies if I am.
 
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The call for more troops was given by McCrystal back in the summer. It is "under advisement" in the Obama think tank. Which tells me that it is 1,000% political to BHO.
Once again, I took his comments to mean that he is frustrated with the pase that this administration is moving on this war, which, by the way, BHO himself said back in April, was his "number one priority".

It is hard to formulate a plan when you are more worried about getting on TV for health care interviews and taking a tax payer provided "official business" trip every month to another foreign country. He is off again to try and take the glory if his mob buddies in Chi-Town land the Olympics.
 
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