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<blockquote data-quote="perfecxionX" data-source="post: 6537979" data-attributes="member: 572854"><p>You should really read what Gen Mcchrystal's strategy actually consists of. There is nothing that drives young muslims to taliban and al-queda recruiters more than american bombs killing muslim civilians.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/Assessment_Redacted_092109.pdf?hpid=topnews" target="_blank">http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/Assessment_Redacted_092109.pdf?hpid=topnews</a>)</p><p></p><p>Mcchrystal -</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Central to McChrystal’s strategy are three principles: "protect the Afghan people, build an Afghan state and make friends with whomever you can, including insurgents." (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/magazine/18Afghanistan-t.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/magazine/18Afghanistan-t.html?pagewanted=all</a>) The soldiers being sent to afgan are not being sent to fight the insurgency nearly as much as they are being sent to protect the afgan populace. The goal is to build a competent afgan govt that will defend the population and fight the taliban (so we dont have to for the next 20 years).</p><p></p><p>I'm quite skeptical about whether we can accomplish such a goal, not to mention doing it in 18months. If our concern is preventing another 9/11 like attack on the US i dont understand why we dont fight al-queda in afgan the same way we are currently fighting al-queda in Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen (spec ops, drones, airstrikes, etc). Even if we are successful in afgan (fingers crossed), this fight does not end there. Al-queda is a global organization that will run wild in any failed state with a heavy islamic population.</p><p></p><p>also, concerning your sig:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_democracy_will_cease_to_exist" target="_blank">http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_democracy_will_cease_to_exist</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jefferson-quotes.htm" target="_blank">http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jefferson-quotes.htm</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="perfecxionX, post: 6537979, member: 572854"] You should really read what Gen Mcchrystal's strategy actually consists of. There is nothing that drives young muslims to taliban and al-queda recruiters more than american bombs killing muslim civilians. [URL="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/Assessment_Redacted_092109.pdf?hpid=topnews"]http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/Assessment_Redacted_092109.pdf?hpid=topnews[/URL]) Mcchrystal - Central to McChrystal’s strategy are three principles: "protect the Afghan people, build an Afghan state and make friends with whomever you can, including insurgents." ([URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/magazine/18Afghanistan-t.html?pagewanted=all"]http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/magazine/18Afghanistan-t.html?pagewanted=all[/URL]) The soldiers being sent to afgan are not being sent to fight the insurgency nearly as much as they are being sent to protect the afgan populace. The goal is to build a competent afgan govt that will defend the population and fight the taliban (so we dont have to for the next 20 years). I'm quite skeptical about whether we can accomplish such a goal, not to mention doing it in 18months. If our concern is preventing another 9/11 like attack on the US i dont understand why we dont fight al-queda in afgan the same way we are currently fighting al-queda in Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen (spec ops, drones, airstrikes, etc). Even if we are successful in afgan (fingers crossed), this fight does not end there. Al-queda is a global organization that will run wild in any failed state with a heavy islamic population. also, concerning your sig: [URL="http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_democracy_will_cease_to_exist"]http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/The_democracy_will_cease_to_exist[/URL] [URL="http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jefferson-quotes.htm"]http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/j/jefferson-quotes.htm[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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