Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, left, with Richard C. Holbrooke, the U.S. special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, on Sunday. Kai Moerk/Munich Conference on Security, via European Pressphoto Agency
Holbrooke Says Afghan War ‘Tougher Than Iraq
-- The New York Times
-- The New York Times
MUNICH — The war in Afghanistan will be “much tougher than Iraq,” President Obama’s special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan told a security conference here on Sunday.
“There is no magic formula in Afghanistan,” the envoy, Richard C. Holbrooke, warned an audience of European policy makers and military planners. “There is no Dayton agreement in Afghanistan,” he added, referring to the peace accord he negotiated to end the war in Bosnia. “It’s going to be a long, difficult struggle.”
Mr. Holbrooke was part of a high-level American delegation at the annual Munich Security Conference over the weekend. The group, led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and including Gen. James L. Jones, the national security adviser, and Gen. David H. Petraeus, the head of the United States Central Command, did not paint a rosy picture of the situation in Afghanistan.
The American view of Afghanistan’s problems differed from that of the country’s president, Hamid Karzai, who also spoke Sunday.
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Update: Afghanistan seen tougher challenge than Iraq -- Reuters
My Comment: He is publicly saying what regular readers of this blog have known since the summer of 2008 .... Pakistan is imploding from pursuing a deal with the devil (i.e. Taliban and Islamic extremists), and the historical and cultural difficulties are running a country like Afghanistan is now being felt.
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