Special Ops Chief Says Afghan Relations Are ‘Great’

What Torture Charges? Special Ops Chief Says Afghan Relations Are ‘Great’ -- Noah Shachtman, Danger Room

It’s been a brutal few days in Afghanistan. On Sunday, the local government accused an American special operator of torturing an Afghan civilian. On Monday, the Hamid Karzai administration insisted that U.S. warplanes killed 17 women and children. Then, on Tuesday, three more U.S. troops were killed by an improvised bomb, bringing the total to 17 slain in this awful month alone.

But to the admiral in charge of America’s special operation forces (SOF), things are going rather well in Afghanistan.

“I think we’re making great strides in Afghanistan,” Adm. William McRaven, the head of U.S. Special Operations Command, said Tuesday in Tampa. “We are achieving in the SOF world probably the best results we’ve seen in many, many years.”

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My Comment: I must be living in an alternate universe.