By Gareth Porter
Asia Times
(Cartoon by Patrick Corrigan, The Toronto Star)
"Providing a textbook demonstration of how the national security apparatus ensures that its preference on issues of military force prevail in the White House, President Obama has made a case to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. But in playing down the link between the Taliban insurgency and al-Qaeda, he's left himself room to maneuver out of the quagmire.....Obama's speech even included the suggestion that the defeat of the Taliban was not necessary to US security. That point could be used by Obama to justify future military or diplomatic moves to extract the United States from the quagmire he appeared to fear only a few weeks ago."
Asia Times
(Cartoon by Patrick Corrigan, The Toronto Star)
"Providing a textbook demonstration of how the national security apparatus ensures that its preference on issues of military force prevail in the White House, President Obama has made a case to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. But in playing down the link between the Taliban insurgency and al-Qaeda, he's left himself room to maneuver out of the quagmire.....Obama's speech even included the suggestion that the defeat of the Taliban was not necessary to US security. That point could be used by Obama to justify future military or diplomatic moves to extract the United States from the quagmire he appeared to fear only a few weeks ago."
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