Does Obama Have A 'Credibility Gap' On Afghanistan?

Mother Jones:

President Barack Obama is still working on his big decision: what to do about the Afghanistan war? On Wednesday, he held another Situation Room strategy session with his national security team. The day before, press secretary Robert Gibbs, said that Obama was pondering four options, without describing these alternatives. Media reports had suggested that each one involved deploying more troops. But hours following this latest AfPak gathering, AP reported that Obama had rejected all four options, and the news leaked that the US ambassador in Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, had sent two classified cables to Washington noting he was deeply concerned about dispatching additional troops to Afghanistan until the government of President Hamid Karzai demonstrates that it's serious about addressing corruption and incompetence.

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Comments

[battlez]

The gap exists between his two rather large ears.

[Ozarks]

No but HP has a credibility gab by posting a typical CBS/MSM propaganda yellow sheet alleged "Report several days ago that Obama was going to send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan.

[SangZe]

The man has no policy.

[BBackSoon]

Why because he didn’t just blindly follow his Military (Industrial Complex) Advisors and simply send more troops?

[dizmo4]

How is there a credibility gap exactly?

When Obama made the initial change in Afghanistan Strategy in March, he thought that he had a legitimate partner in Karzai.

Then came the Afghanistan "elections" that contained massive voter fraud. Karzai became illegitimate amongst the Afghanistan people.

The basic tenant of any counter insurgency strategy is to build up the legitimate forces as an alternative to the insurgents. That's how the British were successful in Malaya and Oman. Thats how the US was successful in the Philipines. Without a credible, legitimate government in Afghanistan, there's no point in sending additional forces. They can't win. The only thing additional forces can do is maintain the status quo.

[nomobull]

no but the authors of articles like this do.