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Stanley McChrystal goes
Stanley? McChrystal leave
After McChrystal
McChrystal after
Barack Obama has sacked his commander in Afghanistan. But the real worry is that the war is being lost
Barack? Obama fired his U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, the squid. But the real concern is the war in Afghanistan is gradually moving towards failure.
Jun 24th 2010
THE national security adviser of the world's greatest superpower is a American commander in Afghanistan, engulfed America in a storm as damaging to its war effort as any Taliban raid. America rightly sets great store by civilian control of its armed forces and on June 23rd a distinctly unintimidated President Barack Obama made General McChrystal pay for his insubordination with his job. But presidential decisiveness cannot conceal a deeper truth. America and its allies are losing in Afghanistan.
the world's largest superpower in the national security adviser, is a clown, Vice-President is a little, and the president, feel uncomfortable and frightened. These are the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Stanley? Officers around General McChrystal's comments. These comments will be another U.S. involvement in the turmoil, the war in Afghanistan against the United States as any damage to a Taliban attack. No doubt the United States places great importance on its tradition of civilian leadership over the army, so in June 23, obviously that is not timid Barack? Obama to General McChrystal for his disobedience to pay the price - his jobs. However, the decision of Mr. President can not hide a deeper truth: The United States and its allies are facing defeat in Afghanistan.
Mr Obama had every reason to cashier General McChrystal. Officers, including his predecessor, have gone for less. Not to act could have left the president looking weak. And yet it was a heavy price to pay. Nothing could cheer the Taliban more than seeing General McChrystal out on his ear. He is a master of counterinsurgency (COIN), he was one of the few Americans who could work with President Hamid Karzai and his hand-picked commanding officers are in charge of a forthcoming operation in Kandahar that will probably determine the course of the campaign (see article). To Mr Obama's credit , his place has been filled by General David Petraeus, the star of the war in Iraq and the man who wrote the manual on COIN. Even so, the dismissal leaves America's campaign pitched on the edge of failure.
Obama has good reason to lift McChrystal U.S. military commander in Afghanistan General's office. Including General McChrystal, including many former military officers because of the smaller things are dismissed. If no action is taken, it will make the president look weak. However, the President also paid a heavy price. The Taliban, nothing more than to see General McChrystal sadly had to leave even more pleased. General McChrystal is the insurgency master, he is also a small number of energy and working with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the Americans. At the same time, he personally selected the commander in charge of Kandahar, the upcoming action, this action is likely to determine the direction the war in Afghanistan. Fortunately, Obama decided to let General Petraeus to take over this position. General Petraeus is the star of the war in Iraq, wrote a counter-insurgency manual. Even so, chicken coaching the U.S. war in Afghanistan is still pushed to the brink of failure.
Mr Obama once described the fighting in Afghanistan as br> Mr. Obama has put the war in Afghanistan as The need for the president now must put aside and instead consider two basic questions. Whether the US-led coalition forces can win in Afghanistan? If so, how to win?
Kabul fighting
Kabul war
This is a terrible moment for the generals to fall out with the politicians. In June Afghanistan surpassed Vietnam to become, by some measures, the longest campaign in America's history. More than 1,000 of its men and women have been killed and almost 6,000 injured. Yet the Taliban are rampant, assassinating tribal leaders and intimidating their people. A survey in 120 districts racked by insurgency, a third of Afghanistan's total, found little popular support for Mr Karzai . Over a third of their inhabitants backed the insurgents.
the civil and military loss and the timing is bad. To June, in accordance with certain standards, Afghanistan has more than Vietnam, became the longest war in U.S. history was. 1,000 U.S. citizens to pay their lives, there are about 6,000 people were injured. The Taliban remain active, continue to tribal leaders in the assassination, intimidation of ordinary people. One in Afghanistan 1 / 3 of the region, which is suffering 120 suffering from rebel areas to a survey conducted, there is little public support for Mr. Karzai. More than 1 / 3 of the residents support the rebels.
Since November, when Mr Obama promised 30,000 more of his country's soldiers to the campaign, little has gone right. General McChrystal's plan was for a backed by its army and police, to take charge. In practice that has not happened. Marja, a farming district in Helmand, was supposed to show how COIN would win over the people and send the Taliban packing. General McChrystal himself now calls Marja a that COIN can work.
since last November, Mr. Obama promised thirty thousand more troops to Afghanistan has made little progress. General McChrystal of the original plans to send more troops to the war from the Taliban grabbed the initiative and create space for the Afghan government to make it in their support of the army and police gradually in power. But the fact that this strategy was not successful. Coalition forces in Helmand province, wanted to agricultural areas and to win hearts and minds Marja shows how the Taliban get out, and now General McChrystal, where his regard as Generally agreed that corruption in Karzai's brother is still in control of Kandahar, Afghanistan, the Pentagon love utopian talk of great mineral wealth but people feel the hopelessness. United States is likely to be at the end of the year to prove their counter-insurgency operations is effective.
The charitable view is that frustration lay behind the reckless insults dished out by General McChrystal and his team in front of a journalist from Rolling Stone. COIN manuals stress the importance of not help. But if the generals have not always done well by the politicians, the politicians have far more often let down the generals. George Bush and his defence chiefs neglected the war in Afghanistan while they devoted themselves to bungling the war in Iraq. Mr Obama and his advisers, at odds over strategy, dithered over allocating troops and, far worse, set a date for them to start their withdrawal.
a more moderate view is that, in the General McChrystal and his team in the stressed the importance of concerted efforts, and Washington's band of idiots, but he is busy all can not help! If the generals and politicians often do not and, it is because too many politicians to the general disappointment. George Bush and his Defense Minister who threw himself into the mess the war in Iraq, while neglecting Afghanistan. Obama and his think-tank differences in strategy, therefore, not only in military configuration, worse in the withdrawal timetable, are indecisive.
This infighting and hesitancy signal a lack of commitment that has drowned out Mr Obama's warlike rhetoric. That has blighted the war's chances of success. Too few Afghans and Pakistanis have thrown in their lot with the West, because too many think America has no stomach for the fight.
internal disharmony and hesitation have shown that the U.S. war in Afghanistan is not enough heart, this attitude is slowly replaced by the militant rhetoric , Mr. Obama also is slowly eating away this the possibility of winning the war. Few are willing to Afghanistan or Pakistan and the West stood in a boat, because most of them think that Americans do not want to fight.
Were so much not at stake, it would be tempting to give up and call the troops home. Yet, although Western leaders have done a poor job at explaining the war in Afghanistan to their voters, a defeat there would be a disaster . The narrow aim of denying al-Qaeda a haven, already frustrated by the terrorists' scope to lodge in unruly parts of northern Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, would become impossible to achieve. A Western withdrawal would leave Afghanistan vulnerable to a civil war that might suck in the local powers, including Iran, Pakistan, India and Russia. Sooner or later , the poison would end up harming America too: it always does. Defeat in Afghanistan would mark a humiliation for the West, and for NATO, that would give succour to its foes in the world. And do not forget the Afghan people. Having invaded their country, the West has a duty to return it to them in a half-decent state.
the war if not under the so many bets, the total abandonment and withdrawal would be a tempting choice. However, while Western leaders to voters to explain the war in Afghanistan has done poorly, but lost the war would be a disaster. Terrorists in northern Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, the forces of chaos zone has plunged the West to stop extremist groups in Afghanistan to become the specific targets of heaven, and if withdrawal, this goal can never be achieved. If the withdrawal is likely to fall into civil war in Afghanistan, which will involved a number of regional powers, including Iran, Pakistan, India and Russia. This poison will hurt sooner or later posted to the United States: past experience has proven this point. The failure of the war in Afghanistan will not only become the shame of the West, NATO will contribute to the arrogance of the other enemies. In addition, do not forget the people of Afghanistan. The West after the invasion of their country, gave them a duty to at least a half-decent country.
It would be idle to harbour such dreams if they were unattainable. Yet, grim as it is, the violence in Afghanistan even now pales beside Iraq at its worst. In the pit of that conflict tens of thousands of people were dying each year, at least ten times more than in Afghanistan today. The ranks of the Afghan army and police force are slowly filling with recruits. There are reasons to think that many Afghans would like to be rid of the Taliban, if only they could believe in an alternative.
but if the target is really far away, we do not set these targets. Although the situation is grim, but the worst of times with the Iraqi security compared to the current situation in Afghanistan and Iraq is better than many. The most serious conflict in Iraq when there are thousands of people die each year, the number of casualties in Afghanistan now at least 10 times. Afghan army and police are slowly expanding. In addition, if there are other choice, there is reason to believe that many people are willing to get rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan to control.
Still the right plan
still the right plan
That is where the appointment of General Petraeus comes in. A losing cause does not automatically have to become a lost one: Iraq showed that. The operation in Marja went badly, but putting down an insurgency needs time and lots of troops , preferably local ones. The real test will come in Kandahar. Worryingly, one of General McChrystal's last acts was to postpone the operation there until the autumn, amid signs that local people were not yet ready to back it. Even so, Mr Obama owes it to the West and to the Afghan people to determine whether COIN can in fact succeed under his best general. The Afghan war may yet end in an ignominious retreat. But nobody should welcome such an outcome.
This is why the appointment of General Petraeus's why. The failure of the division is not to fail, Iraq has proved this point. Marja's actions were not going well though, but it requires a lot of time and a large number of counter-insurgency forces, and preferably also a local army. Kandahar before action will be the true test. Disturbing is that before leaving General McChrystal is one of the last few moves the action to be postponed until the fall, because there are indications that local people have not given full support for action. Even so, Mr. Obama still needs to rely on Western and Afghan people to decide , his best general counter-insurgency strategy is to succeed. Afghan war is not yet suffered a crushing defeat, but did not like the outcome will be.