MtnGoat
10-11-2012, 18:54
Seem like this is the talk in Stars and Stripes and other places.
The Afghan war: Do the numbers add up to success?
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/10/09/170994/the-afghan-war-do-the-numbers.html#storylink=cpy
There is zero question that the Surge in Iraq functioned well as to reducing violence and giving the nascent post-Saddam Iraq at least a chance to avoid a true civil war, like Baghdad as Beirut in the seventies.
That didn't happen in Iraq, and it may, or may not, be avoided in Kabul and Afghanistan in general, although it is clear that the Surge in Afghanistan didn't work as well as in Iraq, raising the question of why?
The bottom line is local and external conditions were different in ways unfavorable to Afghanistan compared to Iraq, if that doesn't mean the Surge didn't work, or that ultimately Afghanistan will fall back into civil war of the form that had artillery duels in Kabul in the early nineties.
Then you have this one here..
The Afghan war: Do the numbers add up to success?
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/10/09/170994/the-afghan-war-do-the-numbers.html#storylink=cpy
By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The 33,000 U.S. troops ordered to Afghanistan two years ago to stop Taliban advances are back home, with military officials claiming that the surge accomplished its objectives.
But did it?
“In mid-2009 there was a real risk that the mission in Afghanistan might very well fail,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said recently. “Today the situation is very much different and improved.”
Violence is down, Panetta said, echoing a refrain heard around the Pentagon.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/10/09/170994/the-afghan-war-do-the-numbers.html#storylink=cpy
The Afghan war: Do the numbers add up to success?
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/10/09/170994/the-afghan-war-do-the-numbers.html#storylink=cpy
There is zero question that the Surge in Iraq functioned well as to reducing violence and giving the nascent post-Saddam Iraq at least a chance to avoid a true civil war, like Baghdad as Beirut in the seventies.
That didn't happen in Iraq, and it may, or may not, be avoided in Kabul and Afghanistan in general, although it is clear that the Surge in Afghanistan didn't work as well as in Iraq, raising the question of why?
The bottom line is local and external conditions were different in ways unfavorable to Afghanistan compared to Iraq, if that doesn't mean the Surge didn't work, or that ultimately Afghanistan will fall back into civil war of the form that had artillery duels in Kabul in the early nineties.
Then you have this one here..
The Afghan war: Do the numbers add up to success?
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/10/09/170994/the-afghan-war-do-the-numbers.html#storylink=cpy
By Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The 33,000 U.S. troops ordered to Afghanistan two years ago to stop Taliban advances are back home, with military officials claiming that the surge accomplished its objectives.
But did it?
“In mid-2009 there was a real risk that the mission in Afghanistan might very well fail,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said recently. “Today the situation is very much different and improved.”
Violence is down, Panetta said, echoing a refrain heard around the Pentagon.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/10/09/170994/the-afghan-war-do-the-numbers.html#storylink=cpy