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Stabilizing Afghanistan may take at least four years, McChrystal
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by snuffysmith | November 28, 2009 at 02:00 pm
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WASHINGTON — The week before a major presidential speech on Afghanistan strategy, Gen. Stanley McChrystal told lawmakers touring the combat zone that it could take at least four years to stabilize the country and allow the drawdown of U.S. forces.
The top coalition commander in Afghanistan gave the estimate to a delegation of six lawmakers during a private assessment in Kabul of military conditions in the country.
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McChrystal’s estimate is likely to prove unpopular with lawmakers already bristling at the idea of upping the ante in Afghanistan at the cost of urgent priorities at home.
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at 14:05 on November 28th, 2009
John Burns Q. and A. on Obama’s Options in Afghanistan -- John Burns, New York Times
Get real on Afghanistan -- Colbert King, Washington Post
When to Leak -- Washington Times editorial
Afghan withdrawal would be folly -- Robert Fox, The Guardian
Obama set to sell surge to America -- Peter Goodspeed, National Post
Embracing the Taliban -- Mitch Potter, The Toronto Star
Afghanistan: The Speech You'll Miss -- Jim Hoagland, Washington Post
at 14:22 on November 28th, 2009
That means two years in military terms.
at 14:30 on November 28th, 2009
McChrystal should be testifying sometime next week in Congress. With the state of the Afghan National Army and Afghan Police and deployment of the first three brigades not starting until March next year. four years is conservative?
Babel would you explain 2 years in military terms please?
at 17:15 on November 28th, 2009
Well when some one ask me how long something would take to do, I would always double the time I knew it would take. Then I would be praised for completing the task quicker. If you under estimate one could find one self being chased and bothered.
Notice the that it could take at least four years, not that it will. The four years was also quoted in a way that it could take much longer without more troops (reading between the lines).
Two years if the Taliban could completely defeated within 6 months or so. It's the new government that's causes the longer time factor (reading between the lines once more).
Yep in military terms it meant 2 years.
Gordon Brown states 2 to 3 years
at 09:42 on November 30th, 2009
The Galula Doctrinefrom Antiwar.com Original by Justin RaimondoAlthough we already know what President Obama is going to be selling this Tuesday – a radical escalation of the Afghan war involving 30,000 or more troops – we don’t yet know what his sales pitch will be like. Can the peerless rhetorician apply his skills to [...]
at 09:44 on November 30th, 2009
Obama’s Big Speechfrom Antiwar.com Original by Jeff HuberPresident Obama will announce his big decision about Afghanistan on Tuesday. The sanctioned leaks about what he’ll say are coming fast and furious. According to various reports, he’ll commit somewhere between 30,000 and 34,000 extra U.S. troops to the region.
at 10:14 on November 30th, 2009
Mullah Omar warns of US defeat ahead of Obama's new Afghan policy launchfrom DEBKAfile
To get the jump on US president Barack Obama, Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar released a message to Washington. Tuesday, Dec. 1, the US president unveils his widely-anticipated Afghanistan strategy and is expected to announce the deployment of an extra 35,000 US troops to Afghanistan plus another 10,000 pledged by eight NATO allies. Indian intelligence sources report the Taliban leader is hiding in Karachi after Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence helped smuggle him out of his secret headquarters in Quetta, Baluchistan.
From his new hideout, Omar Mullah warns the US and its allies of "inevitable defeat."