US Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain (R-AZ) stands with Major Gordon Hilbun (R), McCain's vehicle commander in Haditha, Iraq, on March 16, 2008. Picture taken March 16, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)From Small Wars Journal:
U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today made the following remarks to the American Enterprise Institute on Winning the War in Afghanistan:
More than three years ago, I spoke at AEI about the war in Iraq. At that time, conditions on the ground were going from bad to worse. Violence had accelerated out of control, al Qaeda had firmly entrenched itself in Anbar province, and Iranian-backed Shia militias had taken control of large swaths of Baghdad and southern Iraq. The Iraqi government and its security forces appeared hopelessly corrupt, sectarian, ineffective, and unable to break the cycle of reciprocal violence fueled by Sunni and Shiite extremists. The Bush administration continued to pursue a failed war strategy—despite mounting evidence of its catastrophic consequences. More and more Americans, members of Congress and opinion leaders wondered whether the war in Iraq could ever be won, or whether it was already lost.
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My Comment: In a nutshell .... Senator McCain is telling us that we are losing in Afghanistan. A point in which I am in agreement with.
For everyone's info, The Armchair Generalist has a good post that examines the options for Afghanistan. The link is here.
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