Reuters – Joshua Foust Quoted in Article “Analysis: Obama Plows on With Plans to End Iraq, Afghan Wars”
Source: Reuters/The New York Times, 11/3/2011
Excerpt:
“But do they also reflect battlefield conditions? For those who might suspect that military decisions are being made without sufficient attention to lingering risks on the ground and long-term security, the withdrawals are troubling.
“In some ways this has been done backward. We are looking at the resources we have and the political climate we face, and from that deriving the end state we want in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Joshua Foust, a security analyst at the American Security Project, a nonpartisan think tank.
When Obama, who opposed the Iraq war from the outset, announced last month that he was abandoning efforts to secure a modest troop presence in Iraq after 2011, he repeated his view that the “tide of war” was receding.”
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