RAND: New strategy needed in Afghanistan

[unhappycamper]

"Urgent measures" are needed to stem Afghanistan's mounting insurgency, a new RAND report says.


RAND: New strategy needed in Afghanistan
By Pauline Jelinek - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Feb 17, 2009 16:02:32 EST

WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares to send troops to war for the first time as commander in chief, a new report says a “game-changing” strategy is urgently needed in Afghanistan to save the faltering international campaign.

“All is not lost in Afghanistan,” RAND Corp. experts said in a paper being released Tuesday by the congressionally funded United States Institute of Peace.

“But urgent measures — what might be called ‘game-changing steps’ — are now needed to stem an increasingly violent insurgency,” said authors Seth G. Jones and C. Christine Fair.

Obama has been reviewing several options for a troop build up that he and commanders want in Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is to sign troop deployment orders after he gets a nod from Obama.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that Obama will make the decision shortly about how many additional troops to send to Afghanistan.


Rest of article at: http://armytimes.com/news/2009/02/ap_obama_afghanistan_021709/%2e



uhc comment: Give it up guys; we've already lost. The only thing we will do is Afghanistan is:

a) kill more brown people
b) kill more Americans
c) piss off the Pakistani's more than we already have
d) spend lotsa money we don't have
e) keep Raytheon, Lockeed, BAE, Boeing, and all the defense contractors rolling in $$$

[Spurt]

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