How Much Time to Reverse Insurgent Momentum?
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) read Gen. Stanley McChrystal back his August assessment that the U.S. has 12 months to reverse the insurgency’s momentum. So, he
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Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) read Gen. Stanley McChrystal back his August assessment that the U.S. has “12 months” to reverse the insurgency’s momentum. So, he asks, do we just have ninemonths now?
“I think it’s important that we turn it around quickly, I might say a little bit longer now,” McChrystal said, but we used the last six months at full throttle. we didn’t waste a minute.” That provides a “foundation” to use the extended surge. By next summer, he said he tells his command, “I expect there to be significant progress that is evident to us inside our force.” By next December, when he said he will return to testify, “I expect to lay real progress out to everyone.” And by the summer of 2011, it will be “unequivocally clear to the Afghan people” that the momentum is on the side of the Afghan government, NATO and the United States, which he said he expects will be “decisive.”
One difference between the Petraeus 2007 hearings and today? Petraeus was neverthis unequivocal.
Rhyley Carney
Reviewer
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