MSNBC: Strange bedfellows on Afghanistan (Obama, Rove & Dan Senor)

[Bluebear]

First it was Karl Rove praising President Obama's upcoming announcement to send more troops to Afghanistan. Now it's Dan Senor. (Note: Mr. Campbell Brown)

Senor, a former senior adviser and spokesperson in Iraq during the Bush administration, said he applauds Obama on the decision he has made on the way forward in Afghanistan. His only question is why it took so long.

Senor, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said in a conference call sponsored by the Republican National Committee that the White House decision to delay a new Afghanistan strategy until after the country's presidential elections had been a "worrying sign," especially after Obama had declared the conflict a "war of necessity" this past August. He said, however, that he's now "pleasantly surprised" and "quite encouraged by the president's decision" to increase troop levels in Afghanistan.

But he added that he thought Obama's decision-making process was "too long," and that "the president basically signed onto the McChrystal strategy a long time ago," referring to a speech Obama made in March about a new strategy, where Senor said he "made his strategy crystal clear."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/12/01/2139581.aspx

[cowcommander]

1. So these are the votes Obama is trying to gain?

:-(

[Kahuna]

2. The repukes certainly know how to get the left going. nt

[maglatinavi]

3. war

Bush started the Afghanistan war to "smoke out" Bin Laden and then let him go, went into Irak... no WMD's... what were the purposes of this two wars??? Millions of $$ spent, thousands dead, our troops having loses by death and or maim, what has been accomplished...??? Iraq is a cinder box... millions stolen, etc. Obama said he would end the Afghanistan war ... the $$$ spent for the Afghanistan war should be used to bring the troops home... No one is going to change those people nor is there any benefit to us to defeat... what??? This is sad day indeed...
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