Adviser: US has 2 more tough years in Afghanistan

Source: AP

Adviser: US has 2 more tough years in Afghanistan

By ANNE GEARAN (AP) – 11 hours ago

WASHINGTON — An incoming adviser to the top U.S. general in Afghanistan predicted Thursday that the United States will see about two more years of heavy fighting and then either hand off to a much improved Afghan fighting force or "lose and go home."

David Kilcullen, a counterinsurgency expert who will assume a role as a senior adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been highly critical of the war's management to date. He outlined a "best-case scenario" for a decade of further U.S. and NATO involvement in Afghanistan during an appearance at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Under that timeline, the allied forces would turn the corner in those two years, followed by about three years of transition to a newly capable Afghan force and about five years of "overwatch."

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Kilcullen, formerly an adviser to Gen. David Petraeus and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said the Taliban-led insurgency is pursuing a classic strategy in which a militarily weaker force avoids direct warfare and sits back to "wait us out 'til we get tired and go home."

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ok...

Two years you POS--- we will be there forever. And then you advocate a decade. Trying to Stomp Out a religion will take more than 2 years. Or 10 for that matter

Oh and by the way nice job of your tanks and HumVees driving through the farmers fields and wreaking their crops.
Nice way to get the (insert racial epithet here) on your side.

You would think these fuckers would have read about Vietnam....

Because it can't possibly be about keeping the military industries flush with $$$.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_Doctrine

The Powell Doctrine states that a list of questions all have to be answered affirmatively before military action is taken by the United States:

1. Is a vital national security interest threatened?
2. Do we have a clear attainable objective?
3. Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analyzed?
4. Have all other non-violent policy means been fully exhausted?
5. Is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement?
6. Have the consequences of our action been fully considered?
7. Is the action supported by the American people?
8. Do we have genuine broad international support?

made them victorious over every invader for several millennium.