Afghanistan ‘As Good As It’s Going To Get’: Marine Commandant

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http://breakingdefense.com/2014/02/afghanistan-as-good-as-its-going-to-get-marine-commandant/

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Afghanistan ‘As Good As It’s Going To Get’: Marine Commandant
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
on February 11, 2014 at 5:26 PM

As America winds up its 13-year war in Afghanistan, where do things stand? “I leave this Saturday night (for Helmand province) to meet the governor and the provincial police chief,” Gen. James Amos said this afternoon. “My sense is, it’s about” — and here he paused — “it’s about as good as it’s going to get.”

“I never say ‘winning’ or ‘losing,’” continued the Marine Corps Commandant, speaking at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “What I do say is, I am confident that, by December of this year, we will have set the conditions for the greatest opportunity for the people of Helmand and Nimroz province to be able to succeed.”

Those two Afghan provinces make up “Regional Command Southwest,” where the US Marines and the British have been in the lead. While Amos is not the commander on the ground, those commanders are mostly Marines and he visits frequently.

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If the US waits too long for a deal and then it falls through, he added, there may not be enough time to ship all the Marine Corps’ equipment out of the country before the end of 2014, although 75 percent of it is already gone.


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The US is cutting up those $1,000,000 17-ton MRAPS that we shipped to Afghanistan into razor blades. A fitting end to this occupation.

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1. And that's the least dishonest thing he can say. nt