Posted on 06/25/2010 3:19:47 AM PDT by Scanian
President Obama said Wednesday that he didn't fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal over policy disagreements. Too bad.
Almost every metric measuring military progress in Afghanistan has gone downhill since McChrystal took command a year ago, as an April Pentagon report detailed. More recently, a UN report revealed that incidents involving improvised-explosive devices -- the main killer of our troops -- rose 94 percent in the first four months of 2010 over a year earlier.
It's notable that one of the few strong statements of support for McChrystal came from Afghanistan's most notorious crime boss -- whom McChrystal had claimed as an indispensable US ally: Ahmed Wali Karzai. AWK, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, told The New York Times: "We are asking the decision-makers to send him back to Afghanistan."
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Well, we have yet another Harvard Democrat President, so shove the Karzai brothers in the back of a Striker and shoot them.
O.K....replace Karzai with whom? And how do you do that in a rough democratic system that we imposed on the country in 2004 and greased for Karzai’s ascension to the job?
To me, this feels a lot like Iraq 2006 when the war was at a tipping point and we weren’t sure which way it was going to go. There were many “experts” out there telling us what was the wisest path. The only thing I could hang my hat on was the collective political team of Bush/Cheney. I had faith in them that they would find the proper team to put in place to turn the tide in Iraq. They did.
This time, I have no confidence in the current political team. I do have confidence in who they appointed as theater commander but am not sure that is enough to turn the tide. If we succeed in Iraq it will be because the Keystone Cops regime stumbled into victory accidentally.
Why? Afghanistan is a corrupt sh!t hole and he would be replaced with another tribal leader that will operate exactly in the same manner... perhaps aligned more closely with the taliban. ann here is certainly a sub par thinker... and she is lazy... no research... just knee-jerk.
LLS
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