Tide Not Turning in Afghanistan

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Gen. Stanley McChrystal told ABC's Diane Sawyer that the U.S. and coalition forces are turning the tide in Afghanistan, but information from Maj. Gen. Michael T. Flynn's recent report suggests otherwise. Flynn's presentation states that the "Afghan insurgency can sustain itself indefinitely," and that war-related violent incidents are up 300 percent since 2007 and another 60 percent since 2008. The information in Flynn's report seems to support the warning given to Brave Foundation by Robert Grenier, former CIA Islamabad station chief and Counterterrorism Center Director: a conventional occupying force will not succeed in the long run in Afghanistan.

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• Afghanistan
• Rethink Afghanistan
• Brave New Foundation
• Afghanistan war
• Diane Sawyer
• McChrystal
• Michael T. Flynn
• Robert Grenier
• CIA

[TheObservationDeck]

America fails.

[hutningnola]

fuck these rat's they dont want help.. give em drone's!

[fruitsofnews]

McChrystals answer was the summum of hybris. The only reason why they are there is to keep the region ablaze. I have a looooooooooooong theory about what they are really up to. Zbigniew shows up in it. Some Mckinder. Some Wilson. Some Waltz. Some Stupidity. Some Lemay. But the whole theory can be summed up thus: "If we can't have this spot, neither shall Iran, Russia, India or China (= SCO). So we're staying put." Think about it.