Daily Mail: 'We are still in stalemate but we're going to win': Top US Army commander in Afghanistan praises Trump's new strategy which gives him 3,000 more troops
* Trump outlined new strategy in Afghanistan in August, offering 3,000 troops
* Four-star general John Nicholson Jr. said the strategy would lead to victory
* He said the war was still in a statelmate but the 'conditions to win' were set
* The general also insisted the president has full confidence in job he's doing
The top US Army commander in Afghanistan has said the war is still deadlocked but Trump's new strategy has 'set all the conditions to win'.
'We are still in a stalemate,' four-star general John Nicholson Jr. told NBC News from Kandahar airfield on Thursday.
'We are only 90 days into this new policy,' he added, 'but with the US forces that will be arriving; with the new authority that we have been given [to] put the pressure on external enablers; with the fact that we are condition based and not time based, we've set all the conditions to win.'
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Update: ‘Still in a stalemate,’ top U.S. commander in Afghanistan says (NBC)
WNU Editor: To put it bluntly. I do not share General John Nicholson Jr.'s optimism.
4 comments:
Light at the End of the Tunnel,
Any day now,
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/309148/
"Light at the end of the Tunnel"
Can someone remind me what victory in Afghanistan looks like? Is victory equal to the defeat of the Taliban? And if so, isn't that completely unrealistic, given they are like what, a fifth(?) of the population? Or is victory achieved when we can strike a deal with the Taliban?
3000, must be a typo lm sure the general read 300,000 to display such optimism.
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