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2009-05-12 Afghanistan

US fires top general in Afghanistan as 'war worsens'

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Posted by Steve White 2009-05-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 As I said in yesterday's thread on this subject:

My guess is that Petraeus is just putting putting his team in place. McKiernan was assigned on June 3, 2008. Patreaus didn't get CENTCOM until September 16, 2008. This is Patreaus building his staff, I believe.

I will add that I have no indication that the war is "worsening" in any way except the media reporting. There will be more combat but because we are going to get more aggressive and confront the Taliban, not because they are getting more aggressive or gaining any ground.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-05-12 03:00|| 2009-05-12 03:00|| Front Page Top

#2 War worsening can be from any number of reasons. You can just bet that the Beltway is full of non-military types who are just full of ideas as to how to conduct the war.

In Vietnam, congressmen loved to fly over for a weekend, then order the military brass to do things--or else. That is how things evolved like "no fire zones", body counts, and operations being aborted for no reason in particular.

The Brookings Institution was full of kibitzers who did everything in their power to interfere with US forces. Their attitude was "don't listen to the military, listen to us describe what the military is doing."

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-05-12 08:52|| 2009-05-12 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 The war is worsening because the Karzai government is making the Heroin Industrialists richer, and they pay off the Taleban

Posted by Bertie Ulumble2954 2009-05-12 17:55|| 2009-05-12 17:55|| Front Page Top

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