from Leslie Gelb, originally posted at Daily Beast, reposted to Council on Foreign Relations site. Obama may be in the same fix that LBJ was in about Vietnam: can't win, can't get out. Obama needs to stick to his plan to start withdrawing US troops next summer - if not sooner.
Also note this excellent piece from Stephen Gray at Le Monde Diplomatique. Money quotes:
from an unnamed NATO commander:
From tribal elders meeting with Hamid Karzai in Kandahar:
Also note this excellent piece from Stephen Gray at Le Monde Diplomatique. Money quotes:
from an unnamed NATO commander:
Sadly for the US, almost everyone supports the Taliban rebels. Even Nato commanders. A senior officer said: “If I was a young man, I’d be fighting with the Taliban.”
From tribal elders meeting with Hamid Karzai in Kandahar:
“If we told you what’s really happening here, we would not last the night,”
“It’s too easy to blame the Taliban.” Shahida Hussein, a human rights activist, said the government and Nato are in league with the bad guys: “If someone kills someone, the government itself says don’t touch him, don’t bother him, he’s our friend, he’s our relative, he has a connection with us. There is no real government here. Kandahar is run by people in the drugs trade, armed with weapons and backed by foreign countries.”
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