[jessduntno]

Bring enough troops. Town by town purge the bad guys, establish local control and see to it all drug crops are burned and will be forever from now on. There is no one to whom we can "turn control over" and the people are not with us, they are with their TRIBAL LEADERS...this is like going through a time warp and visiting the 7th century...here is no central government and no leadership...this is NOT Iraq, there is no alternative structure and what little there is is so corrupt, we might as well build a big furnace in the heart of this third world shithole and start burning our money now...we don't have enough troops to bring to clear and hold by ourselves and if we did we, like the Russians, would go bankrupt even sooner than we are going to anyway...

[A CA Guy]

You then have to develop who you can leave this to, because the only other alternative would be to kill them all.

[MestaMachine]

Anyone who backed McChyrstal’s original assessment is going to get their butts burned big time.
bam and McChrystal have put their heads together to lose, pull out, blame Bush for Vietnamizing Afhanistan, and make obama look like a bloody genius.
McChrystal never went there to win a war. He went there to make it as unpopular as he could and he did it by sacrificing American Troops, by making almost impossible for them to fight or even defend themselves.
His call for more Troops was as phoney as his pronouncement that the taliban is not a threat to US...even as they attack in the heart of Pakistan, backed by Iran, and are closing in on their nukes.
This will be a political win for obama. And the Conservatives who trusted McChrystal will be chewed to bits.