McChrystal Not Sure if More U.S. Forces Needed in Afghanistan
In confirmation hearings, McChrystal said progress is necessary in the next 18 to 24 months.
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US exit strategy
What McChrystal is facing is the well nigh impossible task of finding a way of "winning" this war. The winning or loosing is an illusion not a fact. It all boils down to how you define the criterias for winning. No talibans left: sounds a bit like a genocide depending on how you define taliban. Afghanistan a democracy that can secure its own territory: one of the recently suggested laws in Afghanistan was to deny women the right to attend school or persue a profession. Is this the kind of democracy we had in mind? A stable Afghanistan: This country has not been stable for decades. Invasions and interior armed struggle has long been the norm. Do we really belive that we can just "fix it" with a military op turning to "comprehensive approach" for the solution? Look at the state of former Jugoslavia. We still have military precense there after more than 10 years as do the Europeans.
Bite the apple, call it a victory and take our soldiers home now!
Ernest Yeager
Captain (N) Rd.
Afghanistan and Pakistan
are the two places America can never walk away from and still have any sense of world security.
