http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=77933470079163c6'I was horrified by the president's last speech
, so much unsaid, so much disingenuous, so many half truths,' said James Dobbins, Bush's first envoy to Afghanistan, now director of international programmes at the Rand Corporation. Afghanistan is now the scene of a Taliban revival, chronic Pashtun violence, dominance by US-supported warlords who have become narco-lords, and a human rights black hole.
From the start, he said, the effort in Afghanistan was 'grossly underfunded and undermanned'. The military doctrine was the first error. 'The US focus on force protection and substitution of firepower for manpower creates significant collateral damage.' But the faith in firepower sustained the illusion that the mission could be 'quicker, cheaper, easier'. And that justification fitted with Afghanistan being relegated into a sideshow to Iraq.
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Bush really has been a dismal failure and really just a crook!!!