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 McChrystal’s Report Could Change Obama’s Afghanistan PlanPosted on Sep 20, 2009
The situation has changed significantly since President Obama took office last winter and fixed his focus on Afghanistan, and these changes—including a disputed Afghan presidential election and deadly spikes in insurgent violence—may spell trouble for Obama’s initial strategy in that country, according to an assessment issued by Gen. Stanley McChrystal. Update: Read the Washington Post’s report about McChrystal’s warning of “mission failure” here.
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By ardee, September 22 at 5:25 pm #
paul mitchell, September 21 at 6:19 pm
You are blaming the wrong people.
Report thisBy Night-Gaunt, September 22 at 2:53 pm #
Ending the evil drug war by stopping it will defund much of those who profit from the black market hyperinflation of the product as it is. It would also turn law enforcement away from attacking us and going after criminals. Rape, rob, bunco and such. Real crimes.
Report thisBy paul mitchell, September 21 at 6:19 pm #
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oh heck no..no more american blood for these useless afgans who can’t and won’t protect their open country..why don’t they ask thier almighty god allah for help??? another damn vietnam…
Report thisBy NYCartist, September 21 at 6:14 pm #
Yahoo floating a story now that Obama is mulling increasing drones into Pakistan instead of increasing military on the ground. Yukky - time to exit, exit, exit.
Report thisBy ardee, September 21 at 5:28 pm #
bogi666, September 21 at 6:31 am #
Brilliant analogy, and not just because you agree with me..well maybe a little..
I see you are another tomdispatch junkie….
diamond, September 21 at 5:07 pm
Ironic, hey…First thing I thought of when they announced the arrests..So these guys tried to rent a large truck , paying cash and refusing to show ID…sounds like professional terrorists to me. Lets give the Pentagon even more billions and send way more of our children to kill thousand upon thousands of innocent Afghanis and , incidentally, die too .
Report thisBy diamond, September 21 at 5:07 pm #
And how convenient that just at this moment when the warmongers in the Pentagon want 10,000 more American troops sent to Afghanistan, right on cue they arrest two Afghan men and accuse them of plotting terror attacks. And how can anyone have faith in anything they found in their houses or on their computers when we know that the police can now legally enter anyone’s home and plant evidence on their computer or in some location in their house that only the police know about and then return with a warrant and arrest them? That young guy in the checked shirt looked terrified but he didn’t look like a terrorist to me. The Afghan war is a waste of lives and the public is not being told the truth about the death, mutilation/disfigurement toll among civilians including many women and children. The truth is the west can’t stay there forever and the war is unwinnable in military terms. Ask yourself, did Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld ever do anything sensible? Answer, no they didn’t. So no one should be surprised that Afghanistan is such a disaster.
Report thisBy LostHills, September 21 at 3:38 pm #
Plan?
Report thisWhat plan?
By Peace In !, September 21 at 2:38 pm #
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“We can not defeat ourselves.” “If we don’t get more troops,will likely result in failure.” McCrystal. Joe Biden wants to make sure the current troops are in place and there is re-evalution going on.They organize on command pretty fast don’t they ? As citizens we don’t understand all of which that means but do understand “team up” on strategy. Counter insurgency needs troops !What can we do as Americans that care and share support ? We won’t forget you’re there ! Jitterbug dances for our troops ! If you don’t know that fast dance step go learn it.Watch the video, “Dancin The Boogie” and you’ll get the swing of it and lots of dance clubs around the country are steppin in for support.Every generation leaves the next ideas of innovation and motivation.Peace for National Security and Energy Independence !It’s a fast dance step Vice President Joe Biden and wait and see our generation teach the next from what the 40’s and 60’s taught us.Don’t worry and they’ll team up for a win in the end.They argue to much in politics and it wastes time and energy for solutions.123,456,rock step ! Saw an old video that made me laugh.Jitterbug like Lucy Uncle Sam ! You’ll see ! Support our troops ! What will grow in Afghan to contribute to renewable energy and support their people other than poppy ? Team up NATO ! Go Secretary State Clinton ! God Bless America and that “lady in the pant suit” is on go with solutions and results.“It don’t mean a thing if if it ain’t got your swing !” Now we know Vice President Joe and Obama can dance on go !Support our troops !Obama says he’s looking for clarifications and it’s not going to be driven by politics.Resource it and tell him how you’ll do it General McCrystal.
Report thisBy Richard Fusilier, September 21 at 2:08 pm #
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Reading about and seeing pictures of the British proud effort in Aghanistan
Report thisindicates that Great Britain knows what its doing. LIKE tyhe conqistadors of
Mexico, they have war dogs to help them. Unlke the Americans,. they are not
weak minded and vulnarable to compromises its lawmakers interloping in the
military fray And, we must wage real war, day and night for victory./ not
continually compromizing. Not destroying that Opium crop is another giant
mistake and compromize with evil.
By Night-Gaunt, September 21 at 1:42 pm #
Counter insurgency is General McChrystal‘s specialty isn’t it? Terrorism by any other name. He is an expert at it. That and using one faction against another and there are so many factions in Afghanistan. Expect, as anywhere else that such factions will use the occupiers to do their dirty work for them. All will be untrustworthy because they are Afghani first.
Nation building? How about doing it here first? Then show by example how to have a well run and prosperous and happy county. Rather like Switzerland or Leichenstien instead of leaving mess in Iraq or Afghanistan. The USA just puts in puppets and lets them do the day-to-day routine of operations.
Report thisBy Ian Kocher, September 21 at 1:29 pm #
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The Afghans are tribal, so our concept of one-man-one-vote democracy is doomed to failure there. We have no business trying to pacify the country through fighting corruption, vote fraud, opium, etc., etc. Our job is to kill Bin Ladin and his cohorts, and that means using CIA-type intelligence gathering, coupled with a small, nimble killing machine. Our troops should be pulled back or out, or both.
Obama is revealed as a slow moving, weak-kneed light weight, here as in many other circumstances. See Chris Hedges’s piece: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/21-4.
Report thisBy Marc Schlee, September 21 at 9:46 am #
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THIS JUST IN:
“Success demands a comprehensive counterinsurgency campaign.”
Eight years of war…billions of dollars…
And that’s the sum total?
FREE AMERICA
REVOLUTIONARY (DIRECT) DEMOCRACY
Report thisBy bogi666, September 21 at 6:31 am #
ardee, isn’t the genius of the USG and Pentagon simply astounding. I must also add WHAT PLAN! The whole AfPak war[?] is for the defense contractors. Check out today’s article at TomsDispatch. Anyway AfPak is all about THE DOLE TO THE CORPORATE WELFARE KINGS defense contractors of American taxpayers money. That and weapons testing for the Terminator Drones. Who knew the movie “The Terminator” was prophecy.
Report thisBy ardee, September 21 at 5:25 am #
Gee, does this mean that somebody, somewhere in govt. might actually begin to understand that installing a puppet govt, corrupt as they almost invariably are, backed by American military might that murders innocents almost indiscriminately may not be the best foreign policy solutions?
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