A New Strategy or Following Your Own Advice
October 9th, 2009
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Posted in: Afghanistan, Counterterrorism, Iraq, United States
Tags: Afghanistan, Building Civilian Infrastructures, Bush's War, COIN Doctrine, Counter-drug Operations, Counterinsurgency, Counterterrorism, Crop Substitution, Educational Reforms, General McChrystal, General Petraeus, George Will, Iraq, John Nagle, Nation-Building, President Obama, Rory Stewart, Soviet Troops, Steven Biddle, Taliban, U.S. Special Forces, United States, Vice President Biden, White House Principals Committee
As President Barack H. Obama is edging toward making up his mind about accepting, partially accepting, or not accepting General Stanley McChrystal’s advice to insert more troops in Afghanistan, I hear an abundance of metaphors flying. One metaphor was used by the candidate Obama himself during the presidential campaign, when he described starting the war [...]