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Gates: U.S. reviewing Afghan war strategy

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The Bush administration is looking at possible changes in its war strategy in Afghanistan in light of rising levels of violence and an increasingly complex insurgent threat, Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged Thursday.

"You have an overall approach, an overall strategy, but you adjust it continually based on the circumstances that you find," Gates said in an interview with a group of reporters at a London hotel. "We did that in Iraq. We made a change in strategy in Iraq and we are going to continue to look at the situation in Afghanistan."

Pressed for more details about the review of Afghan strategy, Gates would say only, "We're looking at it."
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2 comments // Gates: U.S. reviewing Afghan war strategy

  • extremepain
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      extremepain  

    • If there is going to be a war against an ideology rather than a government, it has to be done surgically against the terrorist group or cell. It also has to be part of a larger policy of expecting their countries of refuge to either detain them or assist in detaining them. If they choose to do neither, then we will enter with intent to extract them for trial.

      You cannot fight a broad war on terror with battalion after battalion slugging it out with small insurrectionist groups.

      If you're going to fight this at all, that is about the only way. Iraq is not a war on terror. It is war with Iraq, period, and we destablized their entire way of life, leavfing us with no pretty exit.

      I for one am done with fighting them. We might try respecting their right to be, and to have beliefs and that as long as they dont harm us, we have no quarrel with them. Those that choose to attempt to do harm will be made to pay.

      It isn't our freedom that makes them hate us, it is our unilateral attitude toward their world. We are sadly self righteous in thinking we are all that is good and true, when we are anything but. Still in the same, attack us at your own peril.

    • 4 years ago
  • WisconsinNorm
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      WisconsinNorm  

    • If you remember a few years ago the incident with the sniper in the Washington, D.C. area, it can't help but make you shutter about the impossibility to stop simplistically delivered terrorist warfare.

      "The Mouse That Roared" was a prophetic observation.

      I am vexed by the lack of empathy to live life under the auspices of civility.

    • 4 years ago

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