The Right Approach to Afghanistan? - Gen. Barry McCaffrey

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/10/Military_Power_Does_it_Work

Retired four-star General Barry McCaffrey discusses U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan. "Don't go fight and win a counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan - you're in the wrong war," he says. "Afghanistan could be bigger mistake than Iraq."

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Does military intervention work? What is the role of non-military and multi-national groups in regime change and peace-keeping efforts?

Three distinguished participants discuss their perspectives on peace keeping and regime change. Featuring Alex de Waal, program director of the Social Science Research Council, General Barry McCaffrey, four-star general of the United States Army (retired), and Thomas Ricks, The Washington Post's Special Military Correspondent. Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center moderates. -- City University of New York

Barry McCaffrey served in the United States Military for 32 years and retired as a four star general. At the time of his retirement, he was the most decorated serving general in the military. During his thirteen years overseas, McCaffrey served four combat tours of duty. From 1992 to 1994, he served as Lt. General on the Joint Chiefs of Staff Pentagon staff and was also the Special Assistant to General Colin Powell. He also served as Major General on the Army Pentagon staff and commanded 26,000 soldiers during Desert Storm. He was awarded twice with both the Distinguished Service Cross and the Silver Star for valor. Following his distinguished military career, General McCaffrey was appointed, by a unanimous Senate vote, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Clinton administration. He has traveled extensively throughout the world as an official representative of the United States and is a frequent presence in the media, having appeared in over 6,000 television stories and over 15,000 newspaper articles. He is currently president of his own consulting firm based in Arlington, Virginia that provides strategic, analytic, and advocacy consulting services to businesses, governments, and international organizations. He also serves as a national security analyst for NBC News.

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[DaveDaShrubber]

"General" Barry McCaffrey is a Saudi agent who needs to waterboarded.

[conarym9]

@TempestWriter We also need to go after the tribal areas on the border of afghanistan and pakistan, since it's a hot bed for insurgency. The taliban has already gone to war with the pakistani army and slaughtered them. Pakistan is so weak that i can see them falling under taliban rule, and pakistan already has nuclear weapons.

[sonbarably]

the misinforming america project through crooked cable news through non-disclosure.

general McCaffrey is a biased self-interested hawk that sits on the board of a military contracting company DynCorp. this is not an expert or independent point of view.

it's a view from someone who profits from your dead sons and all the tax money it costs to send them overseas to die.

[Uwiluz60]

mccaff93.....yes I know, this will lead to hyper inflation even sooner...We are about to see some big events in world history in the next 5 to 10 years...Obama is going to put us there very fast...But I can't just blame his bad leadership. Years of nation building and greed on wall street..And just everyone that got took in by the spend, spend economy ( Like Me ) But the one thing that gets me the most, is the bad trade agreements that stabbed the working class in the back. Like NAFTA and CAFTA

[mccaff93]

Well Obama likes printing worthless paper, 10 "trillion" worth. lets throw that at the problem.

[sociablyclussy]

He failed the drug war, he is a loser !! 420

[sociablyclussy]

Afghan sativa marijuana is the most nutricious healing plant on Earth. Afghan,Palistine , Iraq , and Pakistan can grow the healthiest safest food medicine to cure themselves and Africa. Ganja paste: freshly picked sun grow sativa grind finely and mix with liquid aloe or aloe gel into a green ganja paste. Removes molds in 3 days , cures skin cancer, gangrene prevention/cure . inject up your rear for colan cancer , ingested cures famine , mental illness and disease. End the war on famine!

[Uwiluz60]

Tempest...We sold Israel 90 - F22 Raptors with long range fuel pods back in August of 08 they took delivery...Let them take out Irans nuke sites and be a silent partner...Iran is much more a threat to them...One bombing would put them years behind....Remember CHEAP !

[TempestWriter]

Thanks, yes I agree with the way the country is, its hard to see how we can fund building a nation up, but I think that if we don't we'll have worse problems in the future. Especially if Iran gets nukes. We need to neutralize these threats before they get out of control

[Uwiluz60]

Your too smart to be 20