Fire McChrystal and get out of Afghanistan
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
10/08/09
The conventional wisdom is that the war in Afghanistan is a ‘war of necessity’ that cannot be lost if the war against al-Qaeda is to be won. This proposition is only now being questioned because the fraud-plagued Afghan election makes a legitimate government almost impossible and because the war in Afghanistan has turned into an eight-year quagmire that is getting worse by the day. Not only is the conventional wisdom wrong, but Gen. Stanley McChrystal should be fired, even if it means losing the war...
//www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2633
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
//freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McChrystal
//freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
//freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
//freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
10/08/09
The conventional wisdom is that the war in Afghanistan is a ‘war of necessity’ that cannot be lost if the war against al-Qaeda is to be won. This proposition is only now being questioned because the fraud-plagued Afghan election makes a legitimate government almost impossible and because the war in Afghanistan has turned into an eight-year quagmire that is getting worse by the day. Not only is the conventional wisdom wrong, but Gen. Stanley McChrystal should be fired, even if it means losing the war...
//www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2633
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
//freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McChrystal
//freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
//freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
//freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
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