Fighters with the Taliban stand on a hillside at Maydan Shahrin Wardak province, Afghanistan. AFP / Getty
From Time Magazine:
President Obama has ordered 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, and NATO is chipping in with an additional 7,000. That's good news for General Stanley McChrystal, who has warned the President that the war is being lost. But the decision to send reinforcements is unlikely to spell defeat for the Taliban and their al-Qaeda cohort.
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My Comment: The Taliban's response to the Afghan surge will probably be the same response that they did to the Soviets when they surged into Afghanistan in the 1980s .... they intensified the fight.
For the past two days both Generals Petraeus and McChrystal have been warning lawmakers and the American public that casualties are going to increase substantially next year. These are ominous statements, because if there are two men who should have a very good idea on what the Taliban are going to do ..... it is obviously these two Generals.
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