On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:41:30 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:55:06 -0500, wrote:

You can see his position evolve if you follow this to the current
policy.
I still think he was completely wrong about Afghanistan, as was Bush.
We have nothing there we can win.

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At an otherwise uneventful hearing before the House Armed Services
Committee this morning, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in
Afghanistan, said something that should confirm and heighten most
people's apprehensions about the war's escalation.

McChrystal noted that he has accumulated several years of command
experience in that country since the war began. And yet, he confessed,
"There is much in Afghanistan that I do not understand."
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Fred Kaplan at www.slate.com

A little honesty is refreshing.
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John H