By David Martin,CBS News
Obama will send in 40,000 more troops over the course of the next year
Tonight,after months of conferences with top advisors,President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there,long term.
The president still has more meetings scheduled on Afghanistan,but informed sources tell CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley McChrystal most,if not all,the additional troops he is asking for.
McChrystal wanted 40,000 and the president has tentatively decided to send four combat brigades plus thousands more support troops. A senior officer says "that’s close to what [McChrystal] asked for."All the president’s military advisers have recommended sending more troops.
But they also have warned that troops alone will not win the war unless Afghan President Hamid Karzai cleans up his government.
I am glad that we have a President,(?) that can make a timely decision!
How many of our troops have died because he is incapable of making a decision that his General in Charge requested?
I am so tired of him like yesterday. He needs to leave America himself. His religion is what,lets here it from him. I want him to tell me what God he serves??? I want to know now!
THANKS for a timely decision for our Military,how many died while you golfed ,and campaigned and raised funds. You Phony ,you are in way over your head….. go back to the Chicago slums where you belong.
All you folks do is talk. Talk does not accomplish anything. When are you going to get organized and take positive action to remove obama and all his evil followers from office? When you decide to quit talking and actually do something to save America let me know and I will join you.
I'll believe the troop deployment when I see it.