Pelosi Sees Support Ebbing for Afghan War

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she sees little congressional support for boosting troop levels in Afghanistan, putting the Democratic majority in Congress on a possible collision course with the Obama administration over the future conduct of the war there. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125263545607902025.html#mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

Partisan politics is again rearing its ugly head. Democratic Speaker of the House of Representative Nancy Pelosi stated that there is little support for boosting troop levels in Afghanistan. Democratic Senate Majority leader, Senator Harry Reid and Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Senator Carl Levin reiterated this same argument. It’s incredible that the same political leaders who only a few months ago replaced one general in Afghanistan with Gen McCrystal who currently submitted to the President his recommendation for the situation in Afghanistan. In the next few months he will submit that he is requesting additional troops in Afghanistan, above what is currently in country. This reminds me of what General David Petraeus encountered in 2007, when he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate only to have his surge plan rejected by these same political leaders. His plan proved successful from reversing the violence in Iraq. If the current ground commander suggests this is what will reverse the surge by the Taliban, let’s not condemn it without debate first. Let’s not play partisan politics, just to appease one’s base!