Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Obama Gets McChrystal's Request for Troops

Afghanistan is a big fat mess, says Richard Engel.
"A lot of people are sick and tired of the United States." Eight years have passed and Americans are just waking up to Afghanistan, he said. NATO, U.N., the U.S. have all failed Afghanistan, he said. MSNBC switches to the Pentagon, which reports that Obama has received Stanley McChrystal's troop request to which Jack Jacobs, military analyst, says request for what? There can't be a request without a strategy. Jacobs says the mission needs to be clearly defined first. The mission in Afghanistan is up in the air. Jacobs has doubts on strategy: