Does the president (reportedly) deciding on 6,000 less troops than requested represent any dissent

[bigtree]

. . . against the wishes of his military commanders in Afghanistan?

[Cant trust em]

1. Depends on what the other strategy is.

Not just about troop amounts.

[bigtree]

2. that's mostly true

I'm a little confused about why there was such an effort by the administration to deny the numbers first requested when this figure seems insignificantly different.

[tekisui]

3. Not really.

They started at 80,000. That was physically impossible. 40,000 is the number of combat ready troops we have left. I guess Obama decided he would want keep 5 or 6 thousand here just in case?

[MNDemNY]

4. No, but it represents contempt for the wishes of the American People.

[panader0]

6. And the Afghani people

[Nikki Stone1]

5. I rec;d this for you, but there are too many unrecs.

Not sayin a word.

[Sinti]

7. No and it seems arbitrary.

That said, I'll wait to hear the details from him.