How The Afghan Surge Was Sold

ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, center, and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, right, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testify before the House Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., Dec. 3, 2009. The hearing focused on President Barack Obama's decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to the war in Afghanistan. DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley

From The Danger Room:

When Gen. Stanley McChrystal decided to launch a sweeping review of Afghanistan strategy, he reached out to a small, but influential, group of national security wonks.

McChrystal’s “strategic assessment group” included Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute and his wife, Kimberly Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War; Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations; Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Andrew “Abu Muqawama” Exum of the Center for a New American Security; and Jeremy Shapiro of the Brookings Institution.

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My Comment: For anyone who is interested .... there are four of us who are responsible for War News Updates. As editor, I am responsible for approximately 75% of the content .... my colleagues are responsible for the rest.

None of us are supported by any institution ... corporate or government.

We cover the Afghan War by trying our best to collapse all view points and opinions into our posts .... and in this regard I think we have been (and are) successful.

In regard to the above post on the selling of the Afghan Surge .... from my viewpoint I believe they have done a terrible job. But considering the options that they had .... and the mess that Afghanistan is (or should I say .... the mess that Afghanistan has always been throughout history) .... selling the surge has been the least of their problems.