http://washingtonindependent.com/58624/levin-urges-surging-afghan-troops-instead-of-u-s-troops National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://washingtonindependent.com/58624/levin-urges-surging-afghan-troops-instead-of-u-s-troops/comment-page-1#comment-75552 The less good war? Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:34:08 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=58624#comment-75552 [...] Ackerman: There’s an implicit if/then reconsideration in the speech. Levin has, all year, pressed the Obama administration to accelerate its recruitment, training and fielding of Afghan soldiers and police — a position sort of advocated by Gates, who also placed similar emphasis on Afghan forces before Levin’s committee in January — and now he says that the United States should accelerate its schedule 240,000 Afghan troops and 160,000 Afghan police a year, to 2012. If the U.S. can’t do that — four years from now, which will be eleven years after the war started — perhaps Levin would reconsider. He quotes Afghan Defense Minister Wardak: “there is no lack of Afghan manpower; we’ve been assured it is available.” But if the Obama administration says it can’t be done, would Levin reconsider? Copyright © 2008 Capitol News Company, LLC | Distributed by Noofangle Media [...] [...] Ackerman: There’s an implicit if/then reconsideration in the speech. Levin has, all year, pressed the Obama administration to accelerate its recruitment, training and fielding of Afghan soldiers and police — a position sort of advocated by Gates, who also placed similar emphasis on Afghan forces before Levin’s committee in January — and now he says that the United States should accelerate its schedule 240,000 Afghan troops and 160,000 Afghan police a year, to 2012. If the U.S. can’t do that — four years from now, which will be eleven years after the war started — perhaps Levin would reconsider. He quotes Afghan Defense Minister Wardak: “there is no lack of Afghan manpower; we’ve been assured it is available.” But if the Obama administration says it can’t be done, would Levin reconsider? Copyright © 2008 Capitol News Company, LLC | Distributed by Noofangle Media [...]

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