From Politico:
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, goes before Congress this week, and with him comes this question: Who’s really in charge here, the generals or President Barack Obama?
The long-awaited hearings, beginning Tuesday before the House and Senate Armed Services committees, are a bookend of sorts to Obama’s address last Tuesday at West Point committing 30,000 more troops to the war effort in Afghanistan. Implicit in the president’s decision is an effective cap of about 100,000 for the American force, but top Democrats fear that unless Obama is more assertive, the military chain of command will undermine his July 2011 target to begin some U.S. withdrawal.
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My Comment: President Obama is the Commander in Chief .... he is in control whether he wants to or not .... and in this case I have an inkling that he wishes he was not responsible for these decisions.
Who would .... you are ordering people to die, and when they die you will then have to deal with their families and love ones. This is probably the most difficult part of the job, and I am sure that President Obama is now starting to understand that this job is probably the worse job in the universe.
As to who is in charge .... that answer is an easy one .... it is the Taliban and their allies who are determined to kick out all foreign influences from Afghanistan. They are the ones who are dictating this battle.