The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
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General McChrystal, Obama’s Afghanistan czar, requested 40,000 troops a few months ago. Obama hemmed and hawed, and decided he’d let McChrystal have 30,000 troops if he promised to surrender and withdraw sometime in July 2011. Now, with confidence, McChrystal asserted: But he said, “I will always provide my best military advice” and if conditions warrant, [...]
“Let me say this as plainly as I can: By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end,” Obama will say, according to the officials. However: In a meeting at the White House on Thursday evening, Obama also told lawmakers that he plans to keep a range of 35,000 to 50,000 support troops [...]
