…: Why We Couldn't Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan"
"The American war in Afghanistan goes on and on and on. General Martin Dempsey, who chairs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was quite honest when he said that to get rid of ISIS, our latest enemy in the never-ending War on Terror, 80,000 US troops will be needed.
While few in Washington will publicly admit that we are in a trap from which we cannot easily extricate ourselves, unable to withdraw or "win" in so complex, varied and perplexing region, there's something about the place that has attracted would-be conquerors' passion to control and change so poor, largely illiterate, intensely religious and tribal poppy-growing country as Afghanistan.
Many veteran journalists have been on the scene and written about their experiences. Among the latest and best are the Wall Street Journal's Anand Gopal's new, fresh, and biting No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, in which he reveals over and again the failures of America's military intervention, perhaps even worse than even cynics back home believed. General (ret.) Daniel Bolger's Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, places much of the blame on US Generals – A bit too much, since he omitted politicians, lobbies and our bellicose home front warriors. Still, his NY Times Op Ed put it best when he defined insanity and US military policies in Afghanistan "as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I think we're there."…"
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