U.S. Navy photo by LTJG Egdanis Torres Sierra
James Durso, RCD: McMaster and Mattis Have Twelve Months to Succeed in Afghanistan
Recently we learned that Erik Prince, founder of the security firm Blackwater Worldwide, and Steve Feinberg, financier, and owner of DynCorp International, a leading military logistics, and training contractor, approached the Secretary of Defense, Jim Mattis, with their plan to use contractors instead of American troops to stabilize Afghanistan. The meeting was arranged at the behest of President Trump’s advisors who want to ensure their boss is apprised of the full range of options in Afghanistan.
The Secretary decided to stick with an in-house solution, that is to say, more of the same, for a war we are, in his words, “not winning.” Secretary Mattis is no enemy of contractors, but hopefully, he reflected on what Messrs. Prince and Feinberg said before he briefed President Trump last week on the way ahead in Afghanistan.
Let’s review our progress in Afghanistan:
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1 comment:
Slowly ramping down aid to Pakistan does not shock the system nor break their will. The Pakistani military and political elite need to feel pain.
If Benazir Bhutto was willing totally f___ over the U.S., then changing faces in the Pakistan leadership will not bring relief to the U.S.
Pakistan trades with North Korea. Pakistan supplies, protects and nurtures the Taliban.
Yes Benazir Bhutto was a snake.
There is no solution to solving the Pakistan supported Taliban insurgency.
The problem is intractable given the constraint, we put on ourselves.
"After Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's state visit to North Korea in 1990, it was reported that the highly sensitive information was being exported to North Korea in exchange for missile technologies. On multiple occasions, Khan alleged that Benazir Bhutto had "issued clear directions" for that matter. In 1993, downloaded secret information on uranium enrichment was delivered to North Korea in exchange for information on developing ballistic missiles."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan
Benazir Bhutto was not elected because she was a woman so much as that she was part of a dynasty.
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