No Victory In Afghanistan -- French Army Chief

The head of the French military General Jean-Louis Georgelin, seen here in June 2008, on Wednesday backed comments by a senior British military officer's view that the war in Afghanistan was unwinnable. (AFP/POOL/File/Jean Ayissi)

French Army Chief Rules Out Military
Victory In Afghanistan -- AFP

PARIS (AFP) - The head of the French military General Jean-Louis Georgelin on Wednesday backed comments by a senior British military officer's view that the war in Afghanistan was unwinnable.

A British officer "was saying that one cannot win this war militarily, that there is no military solution to the Afghan crisis and I totally share this feeling," Georglin told French television channel Public Senat.

"The strategy of NATO, as it has been redefined in Bucharest (at the start of April) does not say anything else," he said.

Georgelin's remarks just a few days after comments by British Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith.

Carleton-Smith, the country's top military officer in Afghanistan, told the Sunday Times that people should "lower their expectations" about how the conflict there would end.

"We're not going to win this war. It's about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat and can be managed by the Afghan army," he told the newspaper.

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My Comment: The Europeans want to leave.