White House: ‘Four options’ for Afghanistan; none picked yet

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News reports to the contrary, the White House said today that President Obama has not made a decision about the way forward with troop deployments in Afghanistan.

The president plans another in a series of meetings with his top military and national security advisors on Wednesday. They will examine ‘four options’’ in the White House Situation Room, the president’s spokesman said today aboard Air Force One en route to Ft. Hood, Texas, where the president will address the memorial service for 13 soldiers killed in a shooting spree there last week.

‘The president will have an opportunity to discuss four options with his national security team tomorrow,’’ White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today. ‘Anybody that tells you that the president has made a decision or, what was the artfully used term last night, ‘tentatively agreed to’ doesn’t have, in all honesty, the slightest idea what they’re talking about.’’

See the rest of what Gibbs had to say about Afghanistan in the Swamp.

-- Mark Silva