Originally Posted by stoneric

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Our foreign policy in a nutshell: Insane general wants 80,000 more troops to insure job(unexplained) has a good chance at success, not saying that success is assured with 80,000 more troops. Insane general expected to get 30,000+ and now claims we could expect a drawdown by 2013. So we're not assured of success even with his wish list of 80,000, yet he can now forcast a drawdown with less than half the troops he actually wants? And this after 8years of failure.

This is on top of the fact that we will be working with an Afghanistan government that ranks 178 on a list of 179, corruption wise and just finished an election that was so corrupt it made Iran's election look utopian. Our template for our Afghanistan surge, which would be Iraq, ranks 176. We also want to train 400,000 Afghans to be part of a security force that their economy can't support.

mcchrystal supposedly sleeps 3 hours a night and eats 1 meal a day. It shows.