Bush hiding from a report prepared by a Special Forces Colonel

A retired Colonel was requested to and did write a report on Afghanistan. In it he said, “…the bombing campaign was not the best way to hunt down Osama bin Laden and the rest of the Al Qaeda leadership, and that there was a failure to translate early tactical successes into strategic victory. In fact,” he wrote, “the victory in Afghanistan was not, in the long run, a victory at all.”

The Colonel is currently a respected instructor at one of the military schools. The report has been accepted by the DOD, but deep-sixed.

This report was in an article by Seymour M. Hersh for this week's New Yorker.

Hersh says that the Bush administration is doing what it ALWAYS does when someone says something they don’t like which is “discredit the person.”

Shouldn't that read the Bush administration is doing what it ALWAYS does when someone says something they don’t like which is “discredit the person.”

AMY DAVIDSON: - You write that the Pentagon, at least, has
heard this before—including in an internal
report it commissioned.

SEYMOUR M. HERSH- At the end of 2002, somebody in the office of
Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict
asked Hy Rothstein, an expert in unconventional
warfare and a veteran of the Special Forces, who
now teaches at the Navy Postgraduate School, in
Monterey, California, to do a military study of
what happened in Afghanistan. They decided that
he would look at the unconventional side of the
war. As part of his research, he went to
Afghanistan, and spent a lot of time in the field
with various commanders and troops. And his
report, when it was delivered in January, was a
quite devastating account of a war that wasn’t
won, and why it wasn’t won, and why it’s not
going to be won unless significant changes are
made by the leadership of the Pentagon.


more
http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?040412on_onlineonly01

http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040412fa_fact

They made it very hard to find but it's online.

Russians wondered what we were doing in Afghanistan. Seems we didn't go in with enough troops to control the country. Seems that was basic military procedure, but having nuts in the White House - or possibly there was not plan to control anything but the oil pipes lines - leaves idiots in charge.

Always backs up his facts. Thanks hedda_foil for the link. :hi: