Fighting the Right War in Afghanistan
05.22.2011 at 09:17am
Afghanistan has three wars at once. Let’s fight the right one – Washington Post op-ed by Douglas Ollivant. BLUF: “America’s counterinsurgency strategy did not go poorly at first, and its supporters highlighted the progress made in Konar in 2006 and 2007. Even traditionalists appreciate some of modernity’s advantages. What isolated chieftain doesn’t like hard currency, and who doesn’t prefer easier export of local products, whether food or gems or timber, to urban centers? But roads run in two directions, and the same vehicles that are welcome to leave full of local goods are more suspect when they arrive with artifacts such as CDs and printed T-shirts, let alone government agents or tax collectors.”
