AP - Official: Obama won't take any current war options

[phleshdef]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_us_afghanistan

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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday.

That push follows strong reservations about a possible troop buildup expressed by the U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, according to a second top administration official. In strongly worded classified cables to Washington, Eikenberry said he had misgivings about sending in new troops while there are still so many questions about the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Obama is still close to announcing his revamped war strategy — most likely shortly after he returns from a trip to Asia that ends on Nov. 19.

But the president raised questions at a war council meeting Wednesday that could alter the dynamic of both how many additional troops are sent to Afghanistan and what the timeline would be for their presence in the war zone, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss Obama's thinking.

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"pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government", sounds to me like he wants to figure out the best way to end this thing

[Jennicut]

1. Stay strong, President Obama. Don't let the generals or so called experts

push you around.

[Cha]

2. Thanks, phleshdef.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Clarification is good

And sound decisions made on such clarifications is even better.

An end to Afghanistan? Could it be?

[vaberella]

4. Are you implying CBS is lieing?! B/c I know many at DU who will say CBS never lies.

Thanks for this. Sanity is not readily available on this site. However the only problem with said article is unnamed sources. However, the plus is that Obama has already stated the exact same publicly which confirms the statement from the unnamed source...and surprisingly, his cabinet (which is rarely on the same page sometimes---Gibbs get it together man! Ditto for you Rahm..I love you but come on!!) have said the exact same.

[mzmolly]

5. I'm nearly as verklempt as I was when he took the oath

of office. *sniffle*

[ShortnFiery]

6. LEADERSHIP certainly isn't one of his options. I'm sick of the traingulating.

:thumbsdown:

[phleshdef]

7. You probably shouldn't use words you can't spell and don't know the meaning of.

[ClarkUSA]

8. !!!!

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[JTFrog]

9. +1

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[frazzled]

10. A portmanteau word?

Traingulation = train gating + strangulation?

[RepublicanElephant]

11. maybe he's listening to gen. smedley butler...

"In War Is A Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidised by public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially from mass human suffering."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket