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An Iraq-experienced young officer shares some well-informed insights.
There seems to be a very warm welcome for President Obama's newly unveiled
AfPak strategy. Am I alone in seeing this plan as a road map to failure? Of
course Pakistani and Afghan leaders welcome the plan that will put billions of
U.S. taxpayer dollars worth of assets at their disposal. The more invested we
become in their corruption, the more leverage they have. Karzai wouldn't be
able to administer Atlanta or Miami, yet he has strategic influence with the
United States and NATO. Such people are happy to see more influence pumping
through the pipes, yet we have no plan to build the 400,000 security forces
that our own experts say are required to secure Afghanistan. Instead, we have a
plan to reach the half-way mark after about three years, and no announced plan
to reach 400,000.
There is little in the Obama plan to be excited about. Some have called it
"bold," but from my boots it looks like a recipe for disaster.
We are steaming toward failure in AfPak, but with more steam than ever
before.
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Michael Yon
Michael Yon
P.O. Box 5553
Winter Haven, Fl 33880
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