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Just Say No to McChrystal
At-Largely —
... and other militant groups in that country aren’t international terrorists; they’re just hooligans with guns who want us to leave. McChrystal confesses he sees no sign of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. National Security Adviser James Jones says the “maximum estimate” says al-Qaeda now has fewer than 100 fighters. The logic boils down to We have to escalate or Afghanistan will fall back under control of the Taliban and they’ll let 100 or fewer terrorists back in the country. What unabashed piffle. Our lessons from the last eight years of woebegone war should have taught us ...
Just Say No to McChrystal
Antiwar.com Original —
... and other militant groups in that country aren’t international terrorists; they’re just hooligans with guns who want us to leave. McChrystal confesses he sees no sign of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. National Security Adviser James Jones says the "maximum estimate" says al-Qaeda now has fewer than 100 fighters. The logic boils down to We have to escalate or Afghanistan will fall back under control of the Taliban and they’ll let 100 or fewer terrorists back in the country. What unabashed piffle. Our lessons from the last eight years of woebegone war should have taught us a ...
Long Wars and Peace Prizes
Antiwar.com Original —
... . If the Taliban take back power in Afghanistan, so what? Hamid Karzai, the guy in power whom we’re backing now, is a knock-knock joke (Who’s there? Nobody). We’d have been far better off after 9/11 to tell one-eyed, illiterate Taliban leader Mohammed Omar to cough up Osama bin Laden in return for a shiny new Cadillac. At the cost of many millions of Cadillacs later, we’re no further along in Afghanistan than we were from the outset. Obama’s National Security Adviser James Jones says al-Qaeda now has fewer than 100 fighters, and even McChrystal admits they aren’t in ...
