WASHINGTON — The top military commander in Afghanistan warns in a confidential assessment of the war there that he needs additional troops within the next year or else the conflict “will likely result in failure.”
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“Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near term (next 12 months) — while Afghan security capacity matures — risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible,” General McChrystal writes.
“Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near term (next 12 months) — while Afghan security capacity matures — risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible,” General McChrystal writes.
OK, fine. Tell us what success looks like, general. Or better yet, Barack, tell us ! 'Defeating the insurgency' sounds, sadly, like the words we used to read in communiques from SE Asia back in the day. If we stake the outcome on a defeat of the insurgency and therefore a stable, non-threatened normal government process in Afghanistan, we are there either for another 10 years or more and/or facing the prospect of 'failure' with each additional request for troops and materiel. There is nothing but trouble for us here, folks....
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