Ex-Iraq ambassador Ryan Crocker: "all the dumb (terrorists) ones are dead" in Afghanistan

[sabra]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gtRsywziWe0Yy_S9xmfRtodB4y6QD9CAO4L00

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — The former U.S. ambassador to Iraq tells Army officers says sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and a change in strategy there are essential.

But Ryan Crocker says it's not just a matter of how many additional forces are sent to Afghanistan, but how they are used.

Crocker was the top U.S. diplomat in Iraq when a surge of forces were sent to tamp down rising sectarian violence.

He told the officers at the Army's Command and General Staff College on Tuesday that success in Afghanistan can't be expected to look like Iraq.

He says the terrorist forces that brought the 9/11 attacks are still in Afghanistan but "all the dumb ones are dead."

[tanyev]

1. Gosh, how...diplomatic.

:eyes:

[elehhhhna]

2. well, yeah...we killed al queda's #2 guy like, a hundred times

when Bush was in charge