According to Greta, Obama has rejected all the current options on sending troops to Afghanistan. Meanwhile there is a substantial increase in the number of troops getting wounded in Afghanistan:
Far from winding down, the numbers of U.S. soldiers coming home wounded have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute among those fighting in Afghanistan, where nearly four times as many troops were injured in October as a year ago.
Amputations, burns, brain injuries and shrapnel wounds proliferate in Afghanistan, due mostly to increasingly potent improvised bombs targeting U.S. forces. Snipers’ bullets and mortar rounds also are to blame.
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At least 1,800 troops were wounded in Afghanistan in the first 10 months of this year, about 40 percent of all the wounded U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Nearly 1,000 of those injuries occurred in the last three months.
I’m no math major, but we’ve know about these troop requests since August, and the word was that the President wanted to reevaluate his strategy in Afghanistan with regard to sending more troops. I guess that makes somewhere between two and three months that he’s been reevaluating. This is just getting ridiculous. I know these decisions are important, but we have the brightest minds in Washington working on this, and now we find out two and a half months later that the only decision Obama has made is to reject all the options on the table? For crying out loud, he’s a community organizer! What does he know about war? He needs to decide something while are troops lives are at stake!
Here’s John Bolton on the matter:
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