{"id":3644,"date":"2009-11-12T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2009-11-12T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T20:00:57","slug":"all-the-time-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/12\/all-the-time-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"all the time in the world&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/33872027#33872027\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/33864508\/ns\/world_news-south_and_central_asia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Official: Obama rejects all Afghan war options<br \/> President seeks clarity on turnover to Afghan government, official says<\/strong><\/a><strong><br \/>  <font color=\"#990000\">AP<\/font><\/strong><br \/>  November 12, 2009<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">WASHINGTON &#8211; President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday. That stance comes in the midst of forceful reservations about a possible troop buildup from the U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, according to a second top administration official.<\/p>\n<p>In strongly worded classified cables to Washington, Eikenberry said he had misgivings about sending in new troops while there are still so many questions about the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Obama is still close to announcing his revamped war strategy &mdash; most likely shortly after he returns from a trip to Asia that ends on Nov. 19.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">But the president raised questions at a war council meeting Wednesday that could alter the dynamic of both how many additional troops are sent to Afghanistan and what the timeline would be for their presence in the war zone, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss Obama&#8217;s thinking&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">You take all the time you want to take President Obama. Then take a little more to be sure. We&#8217;re in the middle of two failed wars that have cost us dearly, wars that have never been thoughtfully considered&#8230;<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official: Obama rejects all Afghan war options President seeks clarity on turnover to Afghan government, official says AP November 12, 2009 WASHINGTON &#8211; President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}