U.S. Marines practice techniques to clear a room while taking a break from the regiment’s pre-deployment training exercise on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Aug. 8, 2009. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Zachary J. NolaFrom Defense Talk:
The United States is now losing the war in Afghanistan, and is failing to consolidate its victory in Iraq. Reversing this situation requires changes in strategy, but it also requires significant additional resources. It may be tempting for the Obama Administration and the Congress to deny this reality, but any failure to provide the additional funds and forces needed to win, and to correct seven years of under-resourcing the Afghan conflict, may well lead to eventual defeat.
The challenges involved are described in detail in a new analysis by Erin K. Fitzgerald and Anthony H. Cordesman for the Burke Chair at CSIS. This paper is entitled Resourcing for Defeat: The Critical Failures In Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Resourcing the Afghan and Iraq Wars.
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My Comment: Will President Obama and the Congress be able to give the necessary tools, direction, and leadership to fight and win in these wars .... I (personally) have my doubts. But even with these doubts, I am sure that President Obama and our leaders will try their best to resolve this situation for the benefit of all, and we in turn must give them the support and latitude to fulfill the agenda that they have been given the mandate to follow.
President Obama has stated that the conflicts that the U.S. are currently involved in are important to our national security .... we in turn must be vigilant to keep him to his word,