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Obama over his head on Afghanistan

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Ben

General McChrystal warns against losing Afghanistan to Taliban. Obama delays decision on request for 40,000 more troops.

Prior to 9/11 and for several weeks afterward, the Taliban was providing safe haven to Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda. President Bush explicitly demanded for the Taliban leadership to hand Obama over to U.S. custody for prosecution. The Taliban declined to do so. We repeated the demand and again we were rebuffed.

Then the stakes changed. We notified the Taliban leadership that if they did not hand over Osama bin Laden within hours the Taliban would then be talking directly to the U.S. military.

The rest as they say is history.

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