So a couple months ago I asked David McKiernan, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, what he thought of the idea of arming Afghan tribesman along a “Sons of Iraq” model. He really didn’t seem very keen on it. But that seems to have been then.
In keeping with the McCain campaign’s announced strategy of smearing Sen. Barack Obama, here’s an ad from the McCain team portraying Obama as slandering the troops in Afghanistan.
Not a word of this is true:
I don’t really have much to add to Laura and Matt‘s takes. Just one quick item worth mentioning.
These two things cannot coexist: the McCain-Palin insistence on deferring to ground commanders in war and the McCain-Palin insistence that the “surge strategy,” as Palin put it, is necessary in Afghanistan.
Sen. John McCain said one substantive thing about Afghanistan in Friday’s debate: we should take Gen. David Petraeus’ Iraq strategy and move it a few thousand miles east.
Or, as he put it, “Sen. Obama calls for more troops, but what he doesn’t understand, it’s got to be a More…
Earlier today I wondered what Gen. David McKiernan, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, thought about empowering tribal forces to augment Afghan police and soldiers — that is, creating a “Sons of Afghanistan” force like the Sons of Iraq. I posed the question to McKiernan at a press conference More…
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