The story that is important to us is the gloomy prognosis for the US-backed NATO expedition into Afghanistan.
In a stark appraisal our commander on the ground, General Stanley McChrystal says a rethinking of policy and the approach is needed.
“Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near term (next 12 months) — while Afghan security capacity matures — risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible,” General McChrystal writes.
More troops ? I don't see Congress backing that and all of this is poignant here in Watertown as there is a stready drumbeat of casualties among our neighbors at Fort Drum.
This looks like a replay of the Soviet occupation and we don't by our own admission seem to making progress towards whatever the goal is.
Somebody needs to decide what to do. Get out or get all the way in. The present path is not very productive.
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Funny in an cynical and ironic way: but former CINC Bush told us we "won" in late 2001 right after kicked the Taliban out and lost bin Laden... he said Afghanistan was the "Model of a new democracy in the ME..." that Afghani women could vote and little girls could return to school -- I know, I heard him...
So, this Taliban/al-Qaeda joint venture kinda went south and we are paying a higher and higher cost in blood and dollars and the General wants more?
I'm confused - are you? We said that we "won" but now "we can't win (again) w/o more troops and cost?"
Surge, resurge, upsurge!
I wonder where Graham got his military experience. Selling Kias to the troops?
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