Is The Afghan Mission Doomed?

U.S. Air Force Capt. Sheila Carlson talks on the radio in the cockpit of a C-130J Hercules aircraft at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, on May 1, 2008. Carlson is a pilot assigned to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron and deployed from the 115th Airlift Squadron, Channel Island Air National Guard Station, California Air National Guard, Port Hueneme, Calif. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force. (Released)

British Envoy Says Mission In Afghanistan Is Doomed, According To Leaked Memo -- Times Online

Britain’s Ambassador to Afghanistan has stoked opposition to the allied operation there by reportedly saying that the campaign against the Taleban insurgents would fail and that the best hope was to install an acceptable dictator in Kabul.

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, a Foreign Office heavyweight with a reputation for blunt speaking, delivered his bleak assessment of the seven-year Nato campaign in Afghanistan in a briefing with a French diplomat, according to French leaks. However sources in Whitehall said the account was a parody of the British Ambassador’s remarks.

François Fitou, the deputy French Ambassador to Kabul, told President Sarkozy’s office and the Foreign Ministry in a coded cable that Sir Sherard believed that “the current situation is bad; the security situation is getting worse; so is corruption and the Government has lost all trust”.

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My Comment: This report is not a good way to raise moral .... but a discussion on this issue has to be raised, and leadership has to be provided.