Victory impossible in Afghanistan: senior British commander
U.S. strategy in Afghanistan will fail, leaked cable says
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May Allah grant peace to Afghanistan and rid it of the khareji, amin!
Western forces in Afghanistan will never be able to win the war against insurgents and may need to include the Taliban in any long-term solution, Britain's senior commander in the country says in a report.
An absolute military victory in Afghanistan is impossible, Brig.-Gen. Mark Carleton-Smith told England's Sunday Times newspaper...
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/10/04/afghan-war.html
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U.S. strategy in Afghanistan will fail, leaked cable says
A coded French diplomatic cable leaked to a French newspaper quotes the British ambassador in Afghanistan as predicting that the NATO-led military campaign against the Taliban will fail. Not only that, but the best solution for the country will be the installation of an "acceptable dictator," the British envoy reportedly added.
"The current situation is bad, the security situation is getting worse, so is corruption, and the government has lost all trust," Sherard Cowper-Coles, the British envoy is quoted by Jean-François Fitou, the deputy French ambassador to Kabul and the author of the cable, as saying...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/03/mideast/afghan.php
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:salam2:
May Allah grant peace to Afghanistan and rid it of the khareji, amin!