[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: The more likely and more plausible explanation is that he’s been forced to change his plans and largely because the situation in Iraq has changed so markedly and so quickly.

We’re now looking at a very different situation on the ground there and if you speak with anyone in country, they’ll tell you how far we’ve come and in a short period.

I have friends there and as little as 15 – 18 months ago they considered the war a lost cause. No more. Combat operations in many provinces have largely ceased and most of the US forces are focused on training the Iraqi Army and police forces and restoring order and stability.

The fact that Obama is ABLE to deploy those 18,000 Marines to Afghanistan should not be lost on you. He can do so because they’re NOT NEEDED in Iraq. The question you should ask is why are they not needed in Iraq?

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: Sorry, but you’re clearly wrong on this and you’re pulling your information from biased sources (HuffPost).

How many people do you know that are in either Iraq or Afghanistan right now? I happen to know six (four in Iraq and two in Afghanistan). I can tell you, without any fear of contradiction, that the continuing disintegration of Afghanistan and the loss of operational tempo that was sustained during NATO’s assumption of various areas of responsibility was watched closely by Centcom and several operations plans at various troop levels were drawn up.

The operations plans were all contingent upon which units would be available for deployment and how many of the NATO forces would be supplanted by US forces and how long, in terms of sustaining combat operations, those forces would be there.

You DO NOT move entire US Army combat brigades or Marine Expeditionary Units/Forces overnight. A good friend of mine is an LTC with Centcom and we’ve been talking about this on and off for over the last year. I’d wager he has a far better handle, being one of those “boots on the ground” than any of the punditocracy over at HuffPost.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: Sorry, but you’re clearly wrong on this and you’re pulling your information from biased sources (HuffPost).

How many people do you know that are in either Iraq or Afghanistan right now? I happen to know six (four in Iraq and two in Afghanistan). I can tell you, without any fear of contradiction, that the continuing disintegration of Afghanistan and the loss of operational tempo that was sustained during NATO’s assumption of various areas of responsibility was watched closely by Centcom and several operations plans at various troop levels were drawn up.

The operations plans were all contingent upon which units would be available for deployment and how many of the NATO forces would be supplanted by US forces and how long, in terms of sustaining combat operations, those forces would be there.

You DO NOT move entire US Army combat brigades or Marine Expeditionary Units/Forces overnight. A good friend of mine is an LTC with Centcom and we’ve been talking about this on and off for over the last year. I’d wager he has a far better handle, being one of those “boots on the ground” than any of the punditocracy over at HuffPost.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: Sorry, but you’re clearly wrong on this and you’re pulling your information from biased sources (HuffPost).

How many people do you know that are in either Iraq or Afghanistan right now? I happen to know six (four in Iraq and two in Afghanistan). I can tell you, without any fear of contradiction, that the continuing disintegration of Afghanistan and the loss of operational tempo that was sustained during NATO’s assumption of various areas of responsibility was watched closely by Centcom and several operations plans at various troop levels were drawn up.

The operations plans were all contingent upon which units would be available for deployment and how many of the NATO forces would be supplanted by US forces and how long, in terms of sustaining combat operations, those forces would be there.

You DO NOT move entire US Army combat brigades or Marine Expeditionary Units/Forces overnight. A good friend of mine is an LTC with Centcom and we’ve been talking about this on and off for over the last year. I’d wager he has a far better handle, being one of those “boots on the ground” than any of the punditocracy over at HuffPost.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: Sorry, but you’re clearly wrong on this and you’re pulling your information from biased sources (HuffPost).

How many people do you know that are in either Iraq or Afghanistan right now? I happen to know six (four in Iraq and two in Afghanistan). I can tell you, without any fear of contradiction, that the continuing disintegration of Afghanistan and the loss of operational tempo that was sustained during NATO’s assumption of various areas of responsibility was watched closely by Centcom and several operations plans at various troop levels were drawn up.

The operations plans were all contingent upon which units would be available for deployment and how many of the NATO forces would be supplanted by US forces and how long, in terms of sustaining combat operations, those forces would be there.

You DO NOT move entire US Army combat brigades or Marine Expeditionary Units/Forces overnight. A good friend of mine is an LTC with Centcom and we’ve been talking about this on and off for over the last year. I’d wager he has a far better handle, being one of those “boots on the ground” than any of the punditocracy over at HuffPost.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: Sorry, but you’re clearly wrong on this and you’re pulling your information from biased sources (HuffPost).

How many people do you know that are in either Iraq or Afghanistan right now? I happen to know six (four in Iraq and two in Afghanistan). I can tell you, without any fear of contradiction, that the continuing disintegration of Afghanistan and the loss of operational tempo that was sustained during NATO’s assumption of various areas of responsibility was watched closely by Centcom and several operations plans at various troop levels were drawn up.

The operations plans were all contingent upon which units would be available for deployment and how many of the NATO forces would be supplanted by US forces and how long, in terms of sustaining combat operations, those forces would be there.

You DO NOT move entire US Army combat brigades or Marine Expeditionary Units/Forces overnight. A good friend of mine is an LTC with Centcom and we’ve been talking about this on and off for over the last year. I’d wager he has a far better handle, being one of those “boots on the ground” than any of the punditocracy over at HuffPost.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: Well, if you’re going to cull quotes from that lefty wag, The HuffPost, I’m going to cull quotes from that righty rag, the WSJ. Attached is an op-ed piece on Obama and Iraq and it makes for interesting reading.

Breeze, you should (and I’m being serious now) go back and look at how Obama has “reshaped his narrative” on Iraq. Look at where he started, in terms of discussing the withdrawal and drawdown, and look at where he is RIGHT NOW. Then we can intelligently discuss where, exactly, the central front in the war is and what his future plans actually look like.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123302008756518061.html

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: Well, if you’re going to cull quotes from that lefty wag, The HuffPost, I’m going to cull quotes from that righty rag, the WSJ. Attached is an op-ed piece on Obama and Iraq and it makes for interesting reading.

Breeze, you should (and I’m being serious now) go back and look at how Obama has “reshaped his narrative” on Iraq. Look at where he started, in terms of discussing the withdrawal and drawdown, and look at where he is RIGHT NOW. Then we can intelligently discuss where, exactly, the central front in the war is and what his future plans actually look like.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123302008756518061.html

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: Well, if you’re going to cull quotes from that lefty wag, The HuffPost, I’m going to cull quotes from that righty rag, the WSJ. Attached is an op-ed piece on Obama and Iraq and it makes for interesting reading.

Breeze, you should (and I’m being serious now) go back and look at how Obama has “reshaped his narrative” on Iraq. Look at where he started, in terms of discussing the withdrawal and drawdown, and look at where he is RIGHT NOW. Then we can intelligently discuss where, exactly, the central front in the war is and what his future plans actually look like.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123302008756518061.html

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: Well, if you’re going to cull quotes from that lefty wag, The HuffPost, I’m going to cull quotes from that righty rag, the WSJ. Attached is an op-ed piece on Obama and Iraq and it makes for interesting reading.

Breeze, you should (and I’m being serious now) go back and look at how Obama has “reshaped his narrative” on Iraq. Look at where he started, in terms of discussing the withdrawal and drawdown, and look at where he is RIGHT NOW. Then we can intelligently discuss where, exactly, the central front in the war is and what his future plans actually look like.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123302008756518061.html

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Breeze: Well, if you’re going to cull quotes from that lefty wag, The HuffPost, I’m going to cull quotes from that righty rag, the WSJ. Attached is an op-ed piece on Obama and Iraq and it makes for interesting reading.

Breeze, you should (and I’m being serious now) go back and look at how Obama has “reshaped his narrative” on Iraq. Look at where he started, in terms of discussing the withdrawal and drawdown, and look at where he is RIGHT NOW. Then we can intelligently discuss where, exactly, the central front in the war is and what his future plans actually look like.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123302008756518061.html

[Allan from Fallbrook]

afx: The US pursued and prosecuted a successful strategy in Afghanistan prior to the handover to NATO forces. The problem was that the NATO forces, by and large, did not want to fight (the exception being the Canadians).

Most of the NATO forces confine themselves to their own areas of operation and do not actively patrol and do not seek out the Taliban or al-Qaeda forces in battle.

Granted, there are other problems there, the largest being the Karzai government, but the Obama “surge” you reference has been in the planning stages for a while now.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

afx: The US pursued and prosecuted a successful strategy in Afghanistan prior to the handover to NATO forces. The problem was that the NATO forces, by and large, did not want to fight (the exception being the Canadians).

Most of the NATO forces confine themselves to their own areas of operation and do not actively patrol and do not seek out the Taliban or al-Qaeda forces in battle.

Granted, there are other problems there, the largest being the Karzai government, but the Obama “surge” you reference has been in the planning stages for a while now.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

afx: The US pursued and prosecuted a successful strategy in Afghanistan prior to the handover to NATO forces. The problem was that the NATO forces, by and large, did not want to fight (the exception being the Canadians).

Most of the NATO forces confine themselves to their own areas of operation and do not actively patrol and do not seek out the Taliban or al-Qaeda forces in battle.

Granted, there are other problems there, the largest being the Karzai government, but the Obama “surge” you reference has been in the planning stages for a while now.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

afx: The US pursued and prosecuted a successful strategy in Afghanistan prior to the handover to NATO forces. The problem was that the NATO forces, by and large, did not want to fight (the exception being the Canadians).

Most of the NATO forces confine themselves to their own areas of operation and do not actively patrol and do not seek out the Taliban or al-Qaeda forces in battle.

Granted, there are other problems there, the largest being the Karzai government, but the Obama “surge” you reference has been in the planning stages for a while now.

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