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I doubt it's the people we're so concerned about. As an avid reader of Pepe Escobar, I'm betting it's the pipelines.

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What makes us human: ideology, or fulfilling survival needs? Despite McChrystal's allusion to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, ideology does matter. And mythology matters even more.

By: Scratching my head

Scratching my head — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:40:34 +0000

If this were a traditional war (i.e. identifiable enemy following the Geneva Convention) then yes, more troop would be the resolution. However, with the troops that are currently there not being managed correctly, and being placed in jobs outside of thier skill set and training, what would sending more accomplish? Having recently returned from Afghanistan, I can say without reservation, that the commanders are the ground are mismanaging the assets (personnel) currently assigned to them. Fewer regualr army soldiers is the way to go. But, so is firing the current commanders on the ground who, from my assessment, are only in it for promotions and ribbons anyway – not to beat the enemy.

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[...] likely to see.” Spencer Ackerman goes further, joking that it makes Gen. Stanley McChrystal “look like a dirty hippie.” A different sort of document is offered by Indian Defense Review, which offers lessons from [...]

By: knowbuddhau

knowbuddhau — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:48:36 +0000

So now it's all about the people? The success of the mission depends on how well we show ourselves to be kinder, gentler occupiers, but what is that mission?

Note how the general reduces Afghans merely to animals, saying all we have to do is solve day-to-day problems, doing the things a functioning national government should do, and they'll fall in line. I disagree: this is the same kind of Newtonian approach to social science that brought us torture. McChrystal is trying to manufacture support. Support, like trust and respect, can only be earned.

What makes us human: ideology, or fulfilling survival needs? Despite McChrystal's allusion to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, ideology does matter. And mythology matters even more.

To think we, the latest in a line of invaders and would-be occupiers, with our foreign ways and our foreign religion, can treat them well enough to convert them to seeing us as their Great Protector-Provider, is imperial hubris on display.

I doubt it's the people we're so concerned about. As an avid reader of Pepe Escobar, I'm betting it's the pipelines.

Pipelineistan goes Iran-Pak
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KE29Df0...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/others/Escobar.html

By: ryanADconsultant

ryanADconsultant — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:54:06 +0000

It sounds like you're pretty critical of the General's patchouli-laced tactics... I think you need to take some of his advice to heart.

Supporting that report is eight, (8), EIGHT YEARS of GWOT counter-insurgency experience. The mere fact we're still involved in Afghanistan / Iraq after that long is evidence that conventional tactics cannot suppress the insurgents.

Where radical Islam is institutionalized, and a drug-money fueled economy fuels the terrorists in return, you find an entire population polarized between the insurgency and the Western coalition. Trying to "kill all the terrorists" will certainly create a fresh breed continually.

Maybe I'm missing the nuance of your critique.