While I understand their lack of faith in Obama, this is still a stupid move by France.
Failure in Afghanistan means the reintroduction of terror training camps. As such, the “youth” violence in Fance would become more intense.
I will go with Gen McChrystal’s estimate. If he says counterinsurgency is the way to win this war, then he has far more boots on the ground than I do.
There are several dangers with a Taliban government:
...9/11 taught one of them
...the Taliban push toward Pakistan’s nukes is another
...They would be another radical Islamic government in the region to go along with Iran, increasing the prestige of jihad islam in the minds of muslims worldwide.
> While I understand their lack of faith in Obama, this
> is still a stupid move by France.
>
> Failure in Afghanistan means the reintroduction of
> terror training camps. As such, the “youth” violence
> in Fance would become more intense.
Don’t kid yourself - success or failure in Afghanistan is not predicated on the number of additional troops France will or won’t send. It’s predicated on our strategy and on our will to win. The military (France’s or ours) is not the problem, of course - our “leadership” is the problem.