Obama starts questioning Pentagon’s war strategy in Afghanistan and NATO’s inefficiency, Pentagon confronts Obama
Prithiv Patil
Jul. 20, 2008

Obama could not believe what he saw and heard in Afghanistan. The NATO is sitting there doing little to prevent the Taliban and Al-Queda from gaining ground. Outnumbered US troops are in ‘fire fighting mode’ calling the Air Force for help again and again whenever they are overrun by the commando type enemy. In the mean time Pakistan continues to provicde the safe sanctualry to the Taliban commando militia.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says the situation in Afghanistan is "precarious" and "urgent."

Obama said that the U.S. needs to start planning now to send in more troops. He has called for an additional one to two brigades — or about 7,000 troops — to be sent to Afghanistan to help counter a resurgent Taliban and quell rising violence. He said the Bush administration allowed itself to be distracted by a "war of choice" but now is the time to correct the mistake.

Afghanistan needs to be ‘tackled’ and Iraq chapter needs to be closed. Obama speaks of the fact that Iraq mistake has cost Afghanistan which was the real stage for fighting the terror.

In the meantime, the Pentagon has started confronting Obama because the presidential nominee is questioning Pentagon’s core tactics and strategy. "It hard to say exactly what would happen. I''d worry about any kind of rapid movement out and creating instability where we have stability. We''re engaged very much right now with the Iraqi people. The Iraqi leadership is starting to generate the kind of political progress that we need to make. The economy is starting to move in the right direction. So all those things are moving in the right direction," Pentagon's top military officer Adm. Mike Mullen said.

The fact is that Iraq is a relatively easy terrain for US Military but Afghanistan is not. But Afghanistan was and is where the terror operators are based. A Military cannot select who the enemy is, where it is based on what is easy and what brings better PR. Pentagon should go after Taliban in Afghanistan even if that means leaving the Iraq theatre totally.

Iraqis can keep fighting their civil war for the next hundred years; America needs to get rid of terror champions in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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