Obama's ministers argue over troop reinforcements!

Obama's ministers argue over troop reinforcements!

20,000, 30,000 or 40,000 - how many soldiers will Barack Obama send to Afghanistan?In The U.S. government, a power struggle is raging - between Clinton and Secretary of the camp of the supporters of Vice President Biden. But the President wishes to further consider the matter.

The spokesman of the President will not speak for him. Barac k Obama's communications chief Robert Gibbs is facing reporters commenting that his boss is on the jump for a state visit in Asia. China, . But urged the journalists not to push issues with China,and with South Korea or Singapore.

When did Obama finally meet his decision to increase troops in Afghanistan. Or has he already decided about how media reports suggesting four days? Gibbs rolled his eyes. It was "amusing to see" how people thought they knew things that only the president can know.
But it is such a lonely decision?

The debate over the future course of Afghanistan is also a struggle in his environment, a real power struggle within the government. He just sent over 10,000 soldiers, which would primarily help with the training of Afghan security forces? 20,000 more to protect above all larger cities? 30,000 to 35,000 men gain, supplemented by soldiers from NATO countries? Or just 40,000, as U.S. Commander Stanley McChrystal calls to protect the Afghan people against "all risks" and seeks to strengthen civil institutions in the country?

For each of these options promoted by powerful players in the U.S. government departments and the White House. For months, they have advised, eight times so far, the president has met with his top advisers already on the question again on Wednesday. It means that Obama has rejected the recent call for options and other details, such as a withdrawal plan. Gibbs. One must not inquire into how soldiers might be sent to Afghanistan, but also how they depart again, says spokesperson Gibbs. For debates are more than numbers, it's about the direction of choices - and at a much high prestige for all players.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls for more troops committed, probably at least an additional 30,000 men on their side is the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke. The strategy of General McChrystal deserves a chance to be heard from this camp.

The vice president wants to focus on the search for terrorists, possibly even only by air attack unarmed drones from afar.Even as Obama in March ruled for the deployment of 21,000 additional troops, Biden pushed against it. Now the experienced foreign policy seems to have gained support, such as the National Security Adviser James Jones.
Jones said recently: "Generals always ask for additional troops. We could have 200,000 soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, and the country will absorb it, as it did in the past."

A similar argument is now being voiced by America's ambassador in Kabul, Karl Eikenberry.He Expresses In a confidential letter to the president, which was leaked to U.S. media, the diplomats "strong concerns" about a troop increase - as long as the Afghan government is corrupt and untrustworthy. His message was not a well publicized incident . According to the New York Times' top military men are angry, and General McChrystal and Eikenberry have asked for an explanation. But Obama has, according to participants at the last meeting at the White House gid address Eiken Berry's concerns . Even Washington insiders speculate, that, the White House wanted to prepare a departure from the strategy of McChrystals. That would be a blow to Clinton.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served with George W. Bush? The Republican could play a key role, "because he is a shrewd tactician not a clear bureaucratic setting" as one insider confided . Gates word carries weight with the President, this much is clear - and, according to statements from anonymous government officials in the U.S. press, he tends to agree to Clinton's recommendation of 30,000 more soldiers. We go about combining the best elements of the various options to maximum effect, he said on Thursday. "I think we can come to the end of this process."An exact date is called for by the minister.

The President does not want to be pushing. Obama has his advisers, reading of the book "Lessons in Disaster" about the decision-making in the White House during the Vietnam War. Its author, Gordon Goldstein describes how John F. Kennedy was forced to begin his term of military invasion of Cuba to a dilettante. "Can then we praise Kennedy, never played more of his military advisers in such a way," . Even Obama, who said the campaign was always long term, wants to appear as an examination of presidential virtue - after eight Bush years, in which many decisions were taken more from the gut.

In addition, Obama maintains the image of a commander who is aware of the gravity of his decision. The U.S. president publicly gave their last respects to fallen soldiers. He drove to the funeral of victims of the killing spree in the military base of Fort Hood, he visited Arlington National Cemetery, the graves of the fallen of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Democrat has diminished, his hair is grayer, this is evident of the burdens of office. "Every day, he is thinking of the dead, says Obama.

The President knows that the decision on Afghanistan could shape his legacy - regardless of how it fails.

How Should he decide, when an escalation that a rebel left his own party. Hamid Karzai. 70 percent of Democrats are now against the use of the Hindu Kush, also from concerns about the corrupt regime of President Hamid Karzai. Obama was aware that the U.S. commitment is "not unlimited" and the government in Kabul must do more,

. But he refuses to send the generals and a few more troops, it could be the right-wing opposition characterized as weak and indecisive. They already attacked his hesitation sharply. The Star-conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer "A commander in chief, the six months before his much heralded strategy even reconsiders again, should do so in silence, especially when the same U.S. soldiers die in the field. Does not show the whole world that you have really have no idea what to do. "

So far, the President has ignored such attacks. But the home front could be dangerous: According to a CNN poll, nearly half of Americans believe that Obama has already waited too long with a decision. His party colleague, John Kerry, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the U.S. Senate, compared the mission in Afghanistan with Vietnam.

Obama will now spend nine days in Asia, the debates in the U.S. capital are continuing. . There would be no decision until he was back on American soil, says a consultant from the New York Times.