When Will The Pentagon Stop Using 9/11 To Justify Their Military Strategy

Army Gen. John Nicholson. US Army

Paul Szoldra, Task & Purpose: You Can Always Tell When Generals Don’t Have A Good Answer: They Invoke 9/11

You can always tell when a general doesn’t really have a good answer to a question. He or she will attempt to scare the shit out of you by invoking 9/11.

Army Gen. John Nicholson, the most recent U.S. commander in Afghanistan to kick the can down the road for two years before it’s picked up by the next guy, just became the latest general who cited preventing another 9/11 as a reason we’re still over there after 17 years.

I understand why he’d go for it. When you’re stuck in a stalemate and the reality on the ground hasn’t changed over the past year, despite a new “strategy” being in place, you have two options.

First, you can take Option A: Acknowledge the failure of this campaign to this point and tell the reporter what most members of the military think privately (and, some, publicly): that we shouldn’t be in Afghanistan anymore.

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WNU Editor: It took the former Soviet Union 45 years before they realized that Germany no longer posed a threat .... and it was time to leave. I hope it does not take the Americans that long to realize the same thing about Afghanistan. On a side note .... at least the Soviet Union did not engage in nation building in East Germany.