I wrote a treatise to answer this. I read back through it and to be honest I said a lot of stuff that I didn't feel comfortable discussing in a public forum. The short and sweet of it is this. Afghanistan is totally doable. It will take a long time, but compared to Iraq relatively little money.
The answer? Give it back to SOCOM. JSOC hunts the big names, SF and State and CIA work with the locals to secure areas. Civil Affairs builds a school and a well, shows them some stuff about crops, irrigation, maybe brings in a couple of terps from the states that know what it's like here. You rotate through traditional infantry working directly for the various special forces groups. It'll take a while but it really does work. Hell you could set up local tribe mountain ranger units to police the border too. Vivec wrote: > Your welcome. > > You see, when you say a Surge, with reference to the Iraq Surge, then > it is unreasonable > to expect that you mean something different to what happened in Iraq. > > And, if you say this repeatedly, and never once infer that it is > something different to what occurred in Iraq > until AFTER your opponents point out that it won't work, then its > difficult for you to maintain credibility. > > Glad you finally realised that on behalf of your candidate. > > Now you can argue that no one understood what was being said, but > again that would be your fault > for not explaining yourself until after your original position was > shown to be unworkable. > > 2008/10/4 Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I feel so stupid. >> I can't believe how wrong I was. >> Iraqi troops are in Iraq not Afghanistan and I never heard of a Bagdad >> in Afghanistan. The surge can't work. I mean how could it? >> >> Unless of course McCain meant increase force, clear and secure areas, >> work with local tribes etc. No, he definitely meant the surge verbatim >> as Bush stated. >> >> Thank you for putting up with my simpleness. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:272398 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
