It's hard to know what to believe anymore. Two days after CBS News and other sources confirmed the Obama administration's internal decision to go forward with 40,000 troops, the New York Times reports that President Obama, Vice-President Biden and Chief of Staff Emanuel remain unconvinced. If the anti-war movement could pick any three people to be unconvinced, those three would probably go 1, 2 and 4 in the draft (we'd take Gates over Biden, but that's wishful thinking).
Apparently, Obama's main gripe is that he doesn't see how bringing in more soldiers will solve the problem of an incompetent, corrupt and uncooperative Afghan government. The bad news is that Obama is weighing four different strategies that at the minimum add 20,000 new troops, so it's not like he's allowing presentations by Rethink Afghanistan. We'll continue to update these rumors, even if they are just the product of skitish news rooms who want Obama to stop dithering so they can have something to write about.
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