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COIN Stubbornly in Place, Yet Afghanistan Getting Worse (General Paul E. Vallely)
Stand Up America ^ | 09/01/10 | Paul E. Vallely

Posted on 09/02/2010 1:53:23 AM PDT by Mister Ghost

We see more casualties each day; including 19 US KIA since Saturday, yet the leadership stands by its self-destructive and self-defeating strategy of “counter-insurgency” (COIN) doctrine and nation-building. Since January 2002, can you cite the victories for America in Afghanistan?

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; coinstrategy; generalpaulevallely; generalpaulvallely; islam; military; paulevallely; paulvallely

1 posted on 09/02/2010 1:53:27 AM PDT by Mister Ghost
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To: Mister Ghost

Nation building will never work there, unless it’s to break it up into several states....representing the various clans...How do you make a nation, from something that was man made to begin with...

This is Viet Nam all over again.

WE have our foot in the door, loud and clear in Iraq, then we vacate to fight in Afghanistan? The good war?

This idiot in the WH is clueless...absolutely clueless.


2 posted on 09/02/2010 2:03:42 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Praying today for -23, better yet -24......)
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