... arrive in Afghanistan 'too late'. [Although, anyone remember Rumsfeld's "five years" website - you'd think that 'victory' was just around the corner and the Taliban were on their 'last gasp' on his calculus.]
Bush's stop gap for inadequate boots-on-the-ground, the air war, has already cost dearly, very dearly, in the currency of counter-insurgency, public opinion.
The amped-up "drone war" in Pakistan may well do the same.
The creeping scope of the Afghan "war" was not hard to foresee.
The hope to exit anytime soon is belied by the fact that the root-causes of the main problems are all fixed in timeframes that are *generational*.
Friday, March 27, 2009
More Troops
