A New Way Forward: The Report. Afghanistan Strategy

[elleng]

http://www.afghanistanstudygroup.org/

[KakistocracyHater]

1. do they admit the military solution has only a 7% success rate when it

comes to ending terrorism? The Rand study came to that conclusion just a few years back.

[Prometheus Bound]

2. That opener in the Exec Summmary has some killer stats.

At almost nine years, the U.S. war in Afghanistan is the longest in our history, surpassing even the Vietnam War, and it will shortly surpass the Soviet Union’s own extended military campaign there. With the surge, it will cost the U.S. taxpayers nearly $100 billion per year, a sum roughly seven times larger than Afghanistan’s annual gross national product (GNP) of $14 billion and greater than the total annual cost of the new U.S. health insurance program.1 Thousands of American and allied personnel have been killed or gravely wounded.

[Moostache]

3. Cliff Notes Version:

ITS OVER...WE WON EVERY BATTLE AND CANNOT WIN THE WAR. (NO ONE CAN "WIN" A WAR WITH NO EXIT STRATEGY - NEVER COULD, NEVER WILL...GET OUT NOW! DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200B...

The waste of money and men and women in that armpit of the earth while the people of this nation have more need of that money than we have of more bombs is amoral and will be seen in retrospect as the most stupid thing President Obama EVER gave his signature too.