Thursday, May 14, 2009

Afghan Graveyard: Burying Military Reputations -- A Commentary

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks to soldiers deployed on Field Operating Base Airborne in the Wardak province, Afghanistan, after re-enlisting eight soldiers, May 8, 2009. DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison

From The New York Post:

THE conflict in Afghanistan was a special-operations war in 2001, and it's a spe cial-operations war in 2009. Everything in between was deadly make-believe.

The latest casualty of our incoherent effort is Gen. David McKiernan. On Monday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates removed him from command of our Afghan operations after McKiernan objected to being sidelined.

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