AFPAK 2009 is 1979 Deja View "All Over Again"

http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=21124

Financial Times
December 22, 2009

The Familiar Road To Failure In Afghanistan

By Rodric Braithwaite

Excerpt:

The lessons of history are never clear, and it is risky to predict the future. The British and the Russians won their wars but failed to impose their chosen leaders and systems of government on the Afghans. The western coalition already has as many troops in Afghanistan as the Russians did, and smarter military technology. But neither the British prime minister nor the generals have explained to us convincingly why we should succeed where the Russians and the British failed, or why fighting in Afghanistan will prevent home-grown fanatics from planting bombs in British cities. Tactics without strategy indeed.

Sir Rodric Braithwaite was British ambassador to Moscow, 1988-92. His book Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-1989 is to be published by Profile Books in March 2011

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[BlacktailDefense]

A good alternate title for this video would be, "How the Afghan War was lost --- twice".

How can we seriously expect to win this if the quality of our troops is nigh-nonexistant, AND we won't even send half as many as the Russians?

If you don't have quality *or* quantity, you've got nothing.

[nomorenarcissism]

@BlacktailDefense WELL SAID!

[larsanien]

obama is gorby... hey man oyu are probably a bushfucker but remeber who got you in this mess...

[nomorenarcissism]

@larsanien NO, I DETEST THE 9/11 TRAITOR BUSH who is a war criminal and needs to be brought to prosecuted.

[inarapk]

infact reaction of Pakistan army came as a surprise for Nato and West -Nato should not play this dirty game with Pakistan -Pakistan is not Iraq or Afghanistan -when they are loosing in Afghanistan where there is no professional arm forces -how they can win against a nuclear state

[TheMarinemachine]

I'm ex British forces and studied Military History at University. I was shocked when our government first started talking about going to war in Afghanistan. There must be better ways of securing oil fields?