Comments on: The Missing Piece in Afghanistan Strategy http://washingtonindependent.com/67389/the-missing-piece-in-afghanistan-strategy National News in Context Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: stevehutcheson http://washingtonindependent.com/67389/the-missing-piece-in-afghanistan-strategy/comment-page-1#comment-136027 stevehutcheson Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:34:54 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=67389#comment-136027 President Obama would do well to heed the strategy outlined by bin Laden: all they need to do is put two Al Qaida insurgents into an area and the US will move a battalion to counter them. Guessing a US battalion is 1000 men, for each 10,000 increase in troop levels that will occupy 20 insurgents.<br><br>The same can be said for the Talibs and with 30% of Afghans supporting the Taliban, in a population of 25 million that is around 8 million or some 2 to 3 million men of fighting age. <br><br>The only concern the Talibs have about the US is that they are an invasion force in their country as they see it. They got started in 1995 for the very same set of circumstances that the country is now faced with, rampant corruption in the government.The Afghan people want US intervention in their affairs as much as the US want Afghan intervention in theirs. <br><br>As Polk suggested, the war will stop when the US move out. All the US has then to do is deal with a fundamentalist regime at an international political level that engages them rather than sidelines them. The Afghan people can sort out their own politically preferred system.<br><br>As a side note, I have been observing the decline of the situation over three an half years working in the country on and off since 2002. President Obama would do well to heed the strategy outlined by bin Laden: all they need to do is put two Al Qaida insurgents into an area and the US will move a battalion to counter them. Guessing a US battalion is 1000 men, for each 10,000 increase in troop levels that will occupy 20 insurgents.

The same can be said for the Talibs and with 30% of Afghans supporting the Taliban, in a population of 25 million that is around 8 million or some 2 to 3 million men of fighting age.

The only concern the Talibs have about the US is that they are an invasion force in their country as they see it. They got started in 1995 for the very same set of circumstances that the country is now faced with, rampant corruption in the government.The Afghan people want US intervention in their affairs as much as the US want Afghan intervention in theirs.

As Polk suggested, the war will stop when the US move out. All the US has then to do is deal with a fundamentalist regime at an international political level that engages them rather than sidelines them. The Afghan people can sort out their own politically preferred system.

As a side note, I have been observing the decline of the situation over three an half years working in the country on and off since 2002.

]]> By: stevehutcheson http://washingtonindependent.com/67389/the-missing-piece-in-afghanistan-strategy/comment-page-1#comment-105846 stevehutcheson Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:34:54 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=67389#comment-105846 President Obama would do well to heed the strategy outlined by bin Laden: all they need to do is put two Al Qaida insurgents into an area and the US will move a battalion to counter them. Guessing a US battalion is 1000 men, that will occupy 20 insurgents.<br><br>The same can be said for the Talibs and with 30% of Afghans supporting the Taliban, in a population of 25 million that is around 8 million or some 2 to 3 million men of fighting age. <br><br>The only concern the Talibs have about the US is that they are an invasion force in their country as they see it. They got started in 1995 for the very same set of circumstances that the country is now faced with, rampant corruption in the government.The Afghan people want US intervention in their affairs as much as the US want Afghan intervention in theirs. <br><br>As Polk suggested, the war will stop when the US move out. All the US has then to do is deal with a fundamentalist regime at an international political level that engages them rather than sidelines them. The Afghan people can sort out their own politically preferred system.<br><br>As a side note, I have been observing the decline of the situation over three an half years working in the country on and off since 2002. President Obama would do well to heed the strategy outlined by bin Laden: all they need to do is put two Al Qaida insurgents into an area and the US will move a battalion to counter them. Guessing a US battalion is 1000 men, that will occupy 20 insurgents.

The same can be said for the Talibs and with 30% of Afghans supporting the Taliban, in a population of 25 million that is around 8 million or some 2 to 3 million men of fighting age.

The only concern the Talibs have about the US is that they are an invasion force in their country as they see it. They got started in 1995 for the very same set of circumstances that the country is now faced with, rampant corruption in the government.The Afghan people want US intervention in their affairs as much as the US want Afghan intervention in theirs.

As Polk suggested, the war will stop when the US move out. All the US has then to do is deal with a fundamentalist regime at an international political level that engages them rather than sidelines them. The Afghan people can sort out their own politically preferred system.

As a side note, I have been observing the decline of the situation over three an half years working in the country on and off since 2002.

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