John Hideraker of Power Line Blog just posted a piece citing criticism by UK Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth, who questioned President Obama's decision to put a date on the start of US troop withdrawals.
In an interview with The Times, Bob Ainsworth said that the Government would not follow Washington's promise to start pulling out in 2011. "You can't put a time on it. You've got to look at conditions," he said. ...
His comments reflect dismay at the highest level in the British Armed Forces about Mr Obama's suggestion this week that US troop withdrawals would start by mid-2011. Britain expects to have substantial forces on the ground in Afghanistan for at least five or six more years.
According to Lt. Col Ralph Peters, whose New York Post column is linked to the Power Line piece: Afghanistan's over. More splendid American men and women in uniform will die or suffer terrible wounds, but it was over when our self-absorbed president put the 2012 presidential election above our national security last Tuesday. It was over the moment he uttered the words that doomed his presidency: "July, 2011."
Hideraker calls that declaration by Peters, hyperbolic. Maybe it is.
