"[US Army General] McChrystal's latest assessment calls for redistributing troops to focus more on protecting population centers and less on chasing Taliban fighters. It also says it will take several years to build a more professional and capable Afghan security force, without saying how large that force should be."
And I'm feeling very angry and sad at the same time. He's saying that we are getting our ASS KICKED and that he wants to take a break from the HARD WORK of trying to kill all those Taliban (which is not something we should be trying to do anyway) and SIT ON HIS HANDS, letting the bad guys take the initiative and kick MORE ass.
We should have left Afghanistan immediately after we completed our objective of destroying the existing Al Qaeda camps there. Yes, they would have returned afterwards. But we could have just struck them again when they re-established themselves. We could have maintained a presence there on the cheap, hiring and training spies to report to us the whereabouts of the terrorists and striking them at our convenience, instead of trying to defend the entire country.
But that's a hypothetical situation. Here's reality - we are there now, and even if we had some objective in mind before, it's definitely not going to be served by defending the population centers. Why? Because that means we're giving the REST of the country to the Taliban. And since we're wasting our effort doing something that will NOT lead to defeating the Taliban, we may as well just leave and cut our losses. We have better uses for the money right here at home.
We are tiring ourselves out trying to hold on to worthless pieces of dirt in Iraq and Afghanistan. What is that doing to our ability to defend ourselves here?
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