McChrystal to Send Troop Request by Week’s End
The Obama administration is reconsidering its Afghanistan strategy in light of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's startling "mission failure" warning. It's unclear whether the White House will go along with McChrystal's call for up to 40,000 more troops -- but the general is apparently going to go ahead with his request over the next few days.
The Obama administration is reconsidering its Afghanistan strategy in light of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s startling “mission failure” warning. It’s unclear whether the White House will go along with McChrystal’s call for up to 40,000 more troops — but the general is apparently going to go ahead with his request over the next few days. –KA
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The Pentagon said Wednesday that a request for new troops from the U.S. commander in Afghanistan may have to be revised amid growing uncertainty inside the Obama administration over whether to escalate the American commitment to the eight-year war.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said the troop request from U.S. and NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal will be delivered by the week’s end.
But Defense Secretary Robert Gates will not look to escalate the military mission in Afghanistan until President Barack Obama and his national security team “are ready to consider it,” Morrell said.
Morrell also signaled that the number of troops that McChrystal will ask for — believed to be as high as 40,000 — could change after the report is received if the White House reverses its Afghanistan strategy.
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