Robert Farley notes that just as General Petraeus in Iraq is doubling down on the proposition that backing disparate local armed warlords constitutes a form of "bottom-up reconciliation," military commanders in Afghanistan are moving in the other direction and concluding that in order to build state capacity they need to be more careful about the loyalties of people they work with.
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Unawakening
10 Apr 2008 10:43 am
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"PS - I always get my Afghanistan local military unit training news from Wired. It's certianly the best source for that type of thing."
Not from Nun's Life?
Wait a minute, are you suggesting that giving money to armed factions who were recently shooting at us and whose long-term interests are incompatible with ours and who we can't control might blow up in our face?
No one could have anticipated this.
And McCain believes either approach supports lifetime occupation.
Al, I suggest you start reading Asia Times. Their Afghanistan and Pakistan coverage is considerably better.
That is, if a moron like you can read, which I doubt.
If Matt would read the stuff from them I send him every night, he might not actually be totally clueless about both countries and the situations there.
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Heads in the Sand
Ah, yes. Because the Afghanistan tactic and the Iraq tactic are the exact same thing in the exact same place and therefore we should treat them exactly the same. Oh, right...
Meanwhile, it's funny when coopting the local populace - conthing COIN strategy is all about - is frowned on by the likes of Matthew. It's like he doesn't understand COIN at all.
PS - I always get my Afghanistan local military unit training news from Wired. It's certianly the best source for that type of thing.
Posted by Al | April 10, 2008 11:04 AM