As Hillary Clinton admitted, it is the unelected CFR that dictates the US foreign policy and not the elected officials..
From: Columbia Christians for Life [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 7:19 PM To: Recipient list suppressed: Subject: CFR-member US / NATO Afghan Cmdr General Stanley McChrystal wants more American forces - sends assessment to CFR-member SecDef Robert Gates CFR-member US / NATO Afghan Cmdr General Stanley McChrystal wants more American forces - sends assessment to CFR-member SecDef Robert Gates Stanley A. McChrystal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_A._McChrystal 2006 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Membership Roster (including current and/or past positions of some members) www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers.html 2007 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Membership Roster (including Current and Historical Rosters of Directors and Officers) www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CFRMembershipRoster200708.pdf 2008 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Membership Roster www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers2008.html Steve Lefemine September 21, 2009 ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________ McChrystal: More forces or 'mission failure' Top U.S. commander for Afghan war calls next the 12 months decisive www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32946768/ns/world_news-washington_post/ By Bob Woodward <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/front.htm> Image removed by sender. [] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/front.htm> WASHINGTON - The top U.S. and NATO Image removed by sender. []commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict "will likely result in failure," according to a copy of the 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal says emphatically: "Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible." His assessment was sent to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Aug. 30 and is now being reviewed by President Obama and his national security team. McChrystal concludes the document's five-page Commander's Summary on a note of muted optimism: "While the situation is serious, success is still achievable." But he repeatedly warns that without more forces and the rapid implementation of a genuine counterinsurgency strategy, defeat is likely. McChrystal describes an Afghan government riddled with corruption and an international force undermined by tactics that alienate civilians. He provides extensive new details about the Taliban insurgency, which he calls a muscular and sophisticated enemy that uses modern propaganda and systematically reaches into Afghanistan's prisons to recruit members and even plan operations. McChrystal's assessment is one of several options the White House is considering. His plan could intensify a national debate in which leading Democratic lawmakers have expressed reluctance about committing more troops to an increasingly unpopular war. Obama said last week that he will not decide whether to send more troops until he has "absolute clarity about what the strategy is going to be." The commander has prepared a separate detailed request for additional troops and other resources, but defense officials have said he is awaiting instructions before sending it to the Pentagon. Senior administration officials asked The Post over the weekend to withhold brief portions of the assessment that they said could compromise future operations. A declassified version of the document, with some deletions made at the government's request, appears at washingtonpost.com. McChrystal makes clear that his call for more forces is predicated on the adoption of a strategy in which troops emphasize protecting Afghans rather than killing insurgents or controlling territory. Most starkly, he says: "[I]nadequate resources will likely result in failure. However, without a new strategy, the mission should not be resourced." 'Widespread corruption' The assessment offers an unsparing critique of the failings of the Afghan government, contending that official corruption is as much of a threat as the insurgency to the mission of the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, as the U.S.-led NATO coalition is widely known. "The weakness of state institutions, malign actions of power-brokers, widespread corruption and abuse of power by various officials, and ISAF's own errors, have given Afghans little reason to support their government," McChrystal says. The result has been a "crisis of confidence among Afghans," he writes. "Further, a perception that our resolve is uncertain makes Afghans reluctant to align with us against the insurgents." McChrystal is equally critical of the command he has led since June 15. The key weakness of ISAF, he says, is that it is not aggressively defending the Afghan population. "Pre-occupied with protection of our own forces, we have operated in a manner that distances us -- physically and psychologically -- from the people we seek to protect. . . . The insurgents cannot defeat us militarily; but we can defeat ourselves." McChrystal continues: "Afghan social, political, economic, and cultural affairs are complex and poorly understood. ISAF does not sufficiently appreciate the dynamics in local communities, nor how the insurgency, corruption, incompetent officials, power-brokers, and criminality all combine to affect the Afghan population." Image removed by sender. [] Video <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32946768/ns/world_news-washington_post/id/30326 08/vp/32930574#32930574> Image removed by sender. [] <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32946768/ns/world_news-washington_post/id/30326 08/vp/32930574#32930574> <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32946768/ns/world_news-washington_post/id/30326 08/vp/32930574#32930574> No <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32946768/ns/world_news-washington_post/id/30326 08/vp/32930574#32930574> deadline Sept. 20: President Obama says he won't be sending more troops until he's satisfied with the strategy. Meet the Press Coalition intelligence-gathering has focused on how to attack insurgents, hindering "ISAF's comprehension of the critical aspects of Afghan society." 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