Container bundles parachute to the ground to an undisclosed location in Afghanistan after being dropped by a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, Feb. 26, 2009.U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.
Russian Advice On Afghanistan: More Troops Won't Help -- McClatchy
MOSCOW — The old diplomat sighed as he recalled his years in Afghanistan, and then leaned forward and said in a booming voice that no escalation of troops would bring lasting peace.
As the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986, Fikryat Tabeyev saw the numbers rise to more than 100,000 troops without any possibility of victory against a growing insurgency.
Even with President Barack Obama's plan initially to send 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to that mountainous nation this year, the combined NATO-American force will be smaller than the Soviet contingent was. Moscow's failure to pacify Afghanistan, which broke the back of the Soviet Union, doesn't mean that the same fate awaits Obama's efforts, but ignoring a decade of experience there would be a mistake, former envoys and generals warn.
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Iran Says U.S. Failing In Afghanistan -- Yahoo News/Reuters
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday the United States was failing in Afghanistan and should recognize a new approach is needed, four days after Washington said it would invite Tehran to a conference to discuss its neighbor.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki did not say whether Iran would accept the U.S. invitation to this month's planned meeting on Afghanistan, a swift overture toward Tehran by the new administration of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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My Comment: Interesting .... two traditionally hostile powers telling us on what to do in Afghanistan .... that we are losing .... and that we must listen to them for victory.
I need a valium.
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