How One Afghan General Is Winning The War In Helmand Province

Geoffrey Ingersoll

This Is How One Afghan General Is Winning The War In Helmand Province -- Business Insider

This is Part One of a 4-part series built around The General, a legendary Afghan officer we previously introduced in a run-down of the cast of characters that Geoffrey Ingersoll is following while embedded at FOB Delaram. ~ Eloise & Robert

The office. Wall to wall red carpet. Two couches.

There's a big screen TV, and on it is "Raising Arizona." You know, that classic, the one they never show anymore on cable, the one about the sterile cop and the ex-con who steal a baby from a wealthy family.

There's green tea on the table, little twisty-wrapper caramel candies on each saucer, and on the far wall a big photo of Hamid Karzai looms over an enormous desk, topped with a layer of black reflective glass.

Brigadier General Abdul Wasea (pronounced, "Wa-Say"), commander of the 2nd Afghan Army Brigade in northern Helmand and Nimroz, is sitting next to me on the couch, one leg folded up underneath the other.

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My Comment: I do not envy his job .... at the end of thier tour U.S. and NATO soldiers have the option of going home .... he does not.