Carter Malkasian is “the author of The American War in Afghanistan: A History. He served as a civilian advisor in Iraq and Afghanistan and was the senior advisor to General Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from 2015 to 2019.” In this long piece for Politico from early July, he wrestles with […]
Stanley McChrystal, former NATO commander in Afghanistan, unveils new strategy: “just kind of muddle along”
“If we pull out and people like al-Qaeda go back, it’s unacceptable for any political administration in the [United States]. It would just be disastrous, and it would be a pain for us. If we put more troops in there and we fight forever, that’s not a good outcome either.” Right. But the fact is […]
US general: “Little progress has been made in addressing the underlying conditions that lead to violent extremism”
Indeed not, because the U.S. military is still committed to ignoring, downplaying, or denying outright the motivating ideology that leads to jihad terror. Dunford’s use of the Obama-era euphemism “violent extremism,” when he means Islamic jihad, is one indication of this. As long as the U.S. is committed as a matter of policy to not […]