Was Obama’s ‘Afghan Surge’ A Failure?

[Doc91678]

Was Obama?s ?Afghan Surge? A Failure?

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There's little evidence it's worked.

 

[TheOldSchool]

There were some gains. But they will be lost when we leave. The sooner the better. Afghanistan is a threat to no one except the people who are in Afghanistan.

 

[whitehall]

Maybe somebody in the Pentagon left out the surge part and nobody noticed. The media scrutiny about Iraq and Afghanistan ended when Obama was elected to his first term.

 

[Doc91678]

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Military Report Shows Afghan Surge Complete Failure -- News …

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The US-led NATO military command in Afghanistan has found in a new report that the surge ordered by President Barack Obama has failed to improve conditions on the ...



Obama’s Rules of Engagement In Afghanistan Will Ensure Our Failure

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The request was rejected “on the grounds that it may cause ... we will be forced to leave in failure. ... to Obama’s Rules of Engagement In Afghanistan Will ...

 

[Lakhota]

Obama got Osama bin Laden - so anything else is gravy.

 

[Doc91678]

Maybe somebody in the Pentagon left out the surge part and nobody noticed. The media scrutiny about Iraq and Afghanistan ended when Obama was elected to his first term.

Maobama lost Afghanistan by continually changing the Rules of Engagement. He tied the habds of those he sent into harm's way causing the deaths and injuries to many young Americans.

 

[Doc91678]

Obama got Osama bin Laden - so anything else is gravy.

LMAO....
He had Osama bin Laden assassinated and al Qaeda has only to become larger. Was there an AQIM while he lived?

 

[Oldguy]

Was Obama?s ?Afghan Surge? A Failure?

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There's little evidence it's worked.

Failure? Doesn't that depend upon what you think it was supposed to achieve?

What DO you think it was supposed to do? Surely, you don't think the goal was to defeat the Taliban, do you?

 

[Sallow]

Was Obama?s ?Afghan Surge? A Failure?

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There's little evidence it's worked.

Afghanistan is like quicksand.

The more you try to fight it..the deeper you sink into it.

What the surge did was to maintain status quo..and little else.

Time to get out of Dodge.

 

[Sallow]

Obama got Osama bin Laden - so anything else is gravy.

LMAO....
He had Osama bin Laden assassinated and al Qaeda has only to become larger. Was there an AQIM while he lived?

No it hasn't.

It's been shrinking since the invasion of Iraq expanded it.

 

[Sallow]

Obama got Osama bin Laden - so anything else is gravy.

Not really.

Sometime you gotta know when to walk away.

 

[Sallow]

There were some gains. But they will be lost when we leave. The sooner the better. Afghanistan is a threat to no one except the people who are in Afghanistan.

One of the major problems with Afghanistan is there are no "sides". You can have folks fighting on your side one day..then taking potshots at you the next.

Then a month later they are fighting for you again.

 

[Flopper]

Was Obama?s ?Afghan Surge? A Failure?

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There's little evidence it's worked.

I don't think much of anything has worked in Afghanistan. Yes, we have killed a lot of terrorist but I don't see that we have won the hearts and minds of people. Unless that happens, when we leave, and we will in a few years, life will return to the way it has been for hundreds of years, a country with a weak central government ruled by war lords and religious fanatics and financed by the drug trade.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Both the Iraq and Afghan surges were ill-advised and pretty much useless.

 

[Doc91678]

Was Obama?s ?Afghan Surge? A Failure?

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There's little evidence it's worked.

Failure? Doesn't that depend upon what you think it was supposed to achieve?

What DO you think it was supposed to do? Surely, you don't think the goal was to defeat the Taliban, do you?

All Maobama accomplished was more mutilation and death to those serving in our armed forces. He had the surge designed to fail and did all he could to make it fail. Now to have America retreat from Afghanistan.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Was Obama?s ?Afghan Surge? A Failure?

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There's little evidence it's worked.

Failure? Doesn't that depend upon what you think it was supposed to achieve?

What DO you think it was supposed to do? Surely, you don't think the goal was to defeat the Taliban, do you?

All Maobama accomplished was more mutilation and death to those serving in our armed forces. He had the surge designed to fail and did all he could to make it fail. Now to have America retreat from Afghanistan.

You want to stay in Afghanistan? To do what?