Okay, the title is my interpretation of what the NATO commander said today. He brought up some great points:
- More helicopters
- More Intel
- Drop all of the "caveats" that the French and Germans are using to keep their guys out of the fight.
This one has me cracking up:
We joke that DynCorp is fertilizing the poppies and not eradicating them. Poppy production is up every year but one since the invasion in 2001.
Another great point:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080702...mander_dc_2;_ylt=Atw2n3RMy0.RS8j9gY0AScfOVooA
- More helicopters
- More Intel
- Drop all of the "caveats" that the French and Germans are using to keep their guys out of the fight.
This one has me cracking up:
"Quite frankly, the current anti-narcotics effort is ineffective... It is a cancer fuelling corruption and the insurgency," said Craddock.
We joke that DynCorp is fertilizing the poppies and not eradicating them. Poppy production is up every year but one since the invasion in 2001.
Another great point:
He said criminality and incompetence in the Afghan police posed a major obstacle to creating credible state authority in south and east Afghanistan, and called for OSCE training projects like those that helped stabilize Kosovo and Georgia.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080702...mander_dc_2;_ylt=Atw2n3RMy0.RS8j9gY0AScfOVooA