Senior White House advisers are frustrated by what they say is the Pentagon's slow pace in deploying 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and its inability to live up to an initial promise to have all of the forces in the country by next summer, senior administration officials said Friday.
of course the dithering between the functional completion of the McChrystal report in July or Aug and the Obama proclamation in Nov isn't a problem nor is that fact that 70% of the McC report is based on info gathered at the end of the Bush admin
Last month in Kabul, Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, the deputy commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, did not back away from that schedule, but he told reporters of the difficulties he faced even in getting all the forces in by fall. He said that bad weather, limited capacity to send supplies by air and attacks on ground convoys carrying equipment for troops from Pakistan and other countries presented substantial hurdles.
"There's a lot of risks in here, but we're going to try to get them in as fast as we can," he said at the time. "There's a lot of things that have to line up perfectly." |