You said: "As for the 'working with the tribes', that's not a surge strategy" Clearly it is a part of it.
He actually said: "The word I don't use for Afghanistan is 'surge,' " McKiernan emphasized, saying that what is required instead is a "sustained commitment" to a counterinsurgency effort that could last many more years and would ultimately require a political, not military, solution. So he didn't say the surge strategy won't work he said it's more long term and surge means short term. On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well that's pretty disingenuous of you Sam. The question was on the > surge and you quote a bit where McKiernan says that part of it is the > same. Which I might possibly be convinced of, except that the question > he is answering (which you notably did not include) has nothing to do > with the surge. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:272204 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
