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My wife watched the pres-elect on Barbara Walters and she told me that he basically said we needed to pull all our troops out of Iraq and put them into Afghanistan because we didn't have enough to go on the offensive- instead we've been on the defensive. With his support to going into Pakistan I am a little concerned with his seemingly naive idea for success in A-stan related to getting enough troops to "go on the offensive" against the insurgents there and doing more unilateral strikes into a soveriegn nation that has a shaky grip on power in a country with many fundamentalists and nuclear weapons. I thought the idea in COIN was to build local capacity to do the job (by, with, through) as opposed to flooding an area with tons of conventional types and "going on the offensive". I wonder what Gates thought of the interview- if he's staying.