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Gen. McChrystal was previously head of the secretive Joint Special Operations Command.

“Decapitation strategies don’t work.” Those words, uttered by the newly named U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, mark a shift in the military strategy in Afghanistan. Yes, indeed—it seems to have taken the Pentagon eight years to realize that “you’re going to have to convince people, not kill them.”

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Gen. Stanley McChrystal, in his first interview since being named the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said his front-row seat for the wars there and in Iraq has altered the view of combat he has held since training as a Green Beret to kill enemies quickly and stealthily.

After watching the U.S. try and fail for years to put down insurgencies in both countries, Gen. McChrystal said he believes that to win in Afghanistan, “You’re going to have to convince people, not kill them.

“Since 9/11, I have watched as America tried to first put out this fire with a hammer, and it doesn’t work,” he said last week at his home at Fort McNair in Washington. “Decapitation strategies don’t work.”

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By abdo, June 14 at 12:14 am #

this general has a fate file of assassination and dubious killing and other war crimes why is he sent to Afghanistan ? To commit more crimes? I wish to live until I see this general in court answering for his crimes

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By Folktruther, June 13 at 3:27 pm #

McChristal, who headed the murder and torture unit for Cheney and Rumsfield, apparantly is a quick learner, and has added the sincere duplicity of Obama of saying one thing and doing the opposite. He has been put in charge to kill and torture Afghans less publically than bombing villages, homes, weddings and funerals. kthis should keep the violence more out of the public eye, and off the Aemrican media, thus suporting Obama’s program of talking peace and waging war.

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