enhanced_deficit
06-06-2017, 03:29 PM
Like the military solutions have worked out so great for last 15 years.
United States of Surges .. maybe we should do perpetual surges in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Iran as we did in Korea/Germany?
To be fair to all the pro-surge generals, they are military people with big hammers in their hands .. so naturally every problem is going to look like a nail to them. Maybe time to abandon platitudes like "let the generals tell as what to do".
McMaster Urges Another Afghan ‘Surge’
June 5, 2017
Exclusive: The failure to hold the Iraq War perpetrators accountable has led to false narratives about “successful surges” that never really succeeded — and now may allow the Afghan slaughter to escalate, reports James W Carden.
By James W Carden
Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that President Trump’s National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster will soon be proposing yet another troop increase in Afghanistan. According to the Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/world/asia/afghanistan-war-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fmark-landler&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0), “The White House shelved the deliberations over Afghanistan three weeks ago, after an initial Pentagon proposal to deploy up to 5,000 additional American troops ran into fierce resistance” from White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and other advisers.
https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-5.48.47-PM-300x238.png (https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-5.48.47-PM.png)President Donald Trump announces the selection of Gen. H.R. McMaster as his new National Security Adviser on Feb. 20, 2017. (Screen shot from Whitehouse.gov)
But McMaster, reports the Times, is “undeterred” and “plans to bring the debate back to the front burner this coming week,” according to an anonymous U.S. official.
The current debate recalls the early days of the Obama administration when President Obama was basically railroaded (https://consortiumnews.com/tag/robert-gates/?print=print-search) by Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Generals David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal into sending over 30,000 U.S. troops in an ill-fated “surge” that was advertised by its supporters as the answer to the Afghan quagmire. But the “surge,” rather than resulting in victory, produced a rash of “green on blue (http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/03/21/green-on-blue_attacks_in_afghanistan_the_data_111015.html)” attacks by our alleged Afghan allies upon U.S. troops.
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/06/05/mcmaster-urges-another-afghan-surge/
United States of Surges .. maybe we should do perpetual surges in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Iran as we did in Korea/Germany?
To be fair to all the pro-surge generals, they are military people with big hammers in their hands .. so naturally every problem is going to look like a nail to them. Maybe time to abandon platitudes like "let the generals tell as what to do".
McMaster Urges Another Afghan ‘Surge’
June 5, 2017
Exclusive: The failure to hold the Iraq War perpetrators accountable has led to false narratives about “successful surges” that never really succeeded — and now may allow the Afghan slaughter to escalate, reports James W Carden.
By James W Carden
Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that President Trump’s National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster will soon be proposing yet another troop increase in Afghanistan. According to the Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/world/asia/afghanistan-war-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Fmark-landler&action=click&contentCollection=undefined®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0), “The White House shelved the deliberations over Afghanistan three weeks ago, after an initial Pentagon proposal to deploy up to 5,000 additional American troops ran into fierce resistance” from White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon and other advisers.
https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-5.48.47-PM-300x238.png (https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-5.48.47-PM.png)President Donald Trump announces the selection of Gen. H.R. McMaster as his new National Security Adviser on Feb. 20, 2017. (Screen shot from Whitehouse.gov)
But McMaster, reports the Times, is “undeterred” and “plans to bring the debate back to the front burner this coming week,” according to an anonymous U.S. official.
The current debate recalls the early days of the Obama administration when President Obama was basically railroaded (https://consortiumnews.com/tag/robert-gates/?print=print-search) by Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Generals David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal into sending over 30,000 U.S. troops in an ill-fated “surge” that was advertised by its supporters as the answer to the Afghan quagmire. But the “surge,” rather than resulting in victory, produced a rash of “green on blue (http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/03/21/green-on-blue_attacks_in_afghanistan_the_data_111015.html)” attacks by our alleged Afghan allies upon U.S. troops.
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/06/05/mcmaster-urges-another-afghan-surge/