Obama About to Throw America Under the Bus - Hints at Talks with the Taliban

So many Americans sacrificed. And now Barack Obama seems poised to throw our troops and our country under the bus. This report is from TimesOnline:

President Obama conceded today that the US was not winning the war in Afghanistan and opened the way for negotiations with moderate elements of the Taleban, much as America did with Sunni tribes in Iraq.

The new strategy, which comes as Mr Obama prepares to send an additional 17,000 US troops into Afghanistan, emerged after a frenetic 48 hours of American diplomacy in the region involving new overtures to Iran, Russia and the Muslim world.

The fresh approach to Tehran is causing significant concern in Israel and the Arab world over fears that Mr Obama is making too many concessions to Iran at a time when his own officials say it now has enough enriched uranium to make one nuclear weapon.

Asked during an interview with The New York Times if the US was winning in Afghanistan, Mr Obama replied “no”. He pointed to the success of peeling away Iraqi insurgents from al-Qaeda in Iraq, and said there may be “comparable opportunities” with the Taleban, although he warned that the situation there was “more complex” than in Iraq.

The British government has made it clear to Washington that it also supports contacts with the Taleban, and that moves have already been made by Western officials to talk to lower-ranking Taleban fighters.

One very large problem with Obama's approach which I suppose, could be seen as the Afghanistan version of the U.S.' strategy in Iraq when it worked in tandem with former Iraqi insurgents to quash Al Qaeda. In Iraq, we did not announce our intentions. We just did it. The fact that Obama is running around announcing our military strategy is either a deliberate attempt to cause our forces to lose, or gross incompetence. take your pick.