Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Channeling Lyndon Johnson

This will create hundreds of new targets for the Taliban, requiring hundreds of details of troops to guard them, in fixed positions, instead of going after the enemy. Sounds familiar to an Old Jarhead. Obama isn’t Roosevelt—he’s Lyndon Johnson.

News Alert3:23 p.m. ET Wednesday, March 18, 2009

U.S. Plan Would Send Hundreds More Civilians to Afghanistan

Hundreds of additional U.S. diplomats and civilian officials would be deployed to Afghanistan as part of the new civil-military regional strategy that President Obama’s top national security advisers plan have prepared for his signature next week, according to administration officials.
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