The New Media Journal | Lawmakers Wary of Obama's Afghan War Plans: "Sunday's political talk shows provided a glimpse of the directions in which President Obama's Afghanistan decisions will be pulled, as a key Democrat said his party wants to turn the fight against the Taliban over to Afghan forces, and the Senate's No. 2 Republican criticized any proposal with a US pullout schedule.
The disagreement exemplified the political gauntlet for the president, inside his own party and outside it, as he prepares to announce his long-term plan for Afghanistan in a prime-time address Tuesday.
'If the mission is, as I hope, trying to very quickly build up the Afghan army both in size and in capability and in equipment...The key here is an Afghan surge, not an American surge,' Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat and Armed Services Committee chairman, said on CBS' Face the Nation.
Some anti-war Democrats in Congress have stuck by their calls for a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, while other more-conservative members within the party have said the president needs to honor Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's request for 40,000 more troops.
Mr. Obama is expected to send between 30,000 and 35,000 more US troops to Afghanistan and promise to bolster the force commitments from other nations. He is also likely to outline the terms for an exit of US forces from the now 8-year-old war.
The Senate's second-ranking Republican, however, said that any talk of an 'exit strategy' for US forces will only empower enemies and that the troops should be deployed immediately."
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