'Afghanistan Success Attainable'

[unhappycamper]

'Afghanistan Success Attainable'
December 10, 2009
American Forces Press Service|by Gerry J. Gilmore

Achieving success against extremists in Afghanistan is a challenging, yet attainable mission, the commander of U.S. Central Command said at a Capitol Hill hearing here.

Success in Afghanistan "is of enormous importance, and it is attainable," Gen. David H. Petraeus told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

"But achieving our objectives will not be easy," the four-star general told senators, noting "the challenges are great."

Petraeus said he supports President Barack Obama's revised Afghanistan strategy, part of which involves the deployment of 30,000 extra U.S. troops there over the next several months.

"I do believe that the policy the president announced last week and the additional resources being committed will, over the next 18 months, enable us to make important progress in several critical tasks" in Afghanistan, said Petraeus, the architect of the Iraq surge.


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unhappycamper comment: If you measure 'success' as pissing away gigantic amounts of money every month, we're already 'successful'.

[theoldman]

1. Success is stabilizing the country which we will do in 5 to 10 years.

Our troops will stay there for at least 50 years or more. Failure is leaving and letting our enemies take over the nuclear weapons in Pakistan.

[polpilot]

2. Just re-define 'success'...'success = death & destruction'..We won!!!