Replacing McChrystal Doesn’t Change Anything

In his Rose Garden speech on Wednesday that General McChrystal said the president with a strategy based on a difference "has not decided to make moves, and the appointment of the highly praised Petraeus" allows us to maintain the momentum and leadership that we will need to succeed. "Obama's biggest problem right now is a wave of doubt, not only stressful McChrystal clearly made, but throughout the military and national security apparatus that is not the actual speed or that the policy is to work in Afghanistan. Mint in the local population and winning hearts and minds of the guerrillas and terrorists in this case (anchoring is doing to help them based on the view, the Taliban). But informed critics say that the number in Afghanistan, as many factors for success are missing, especially reliability, a large enough power for its size with a central government and a local (power Afghan army and police) to turn things to stop. , Says Coin, a military researcher, who participated in debates in the Pentagon one critic, "briefs in DC very well, but you can not operate in Afghanistan," but only on condition of anonymity to talk to avoid the fate McChrystal.

A general, almost universal criticism, not a general who was criticized by replacing with Obama Wednesday pulled a political masterpiece. But with inappropriate comments and announced that he will be replaced by General Stanley McChrystal to make his senior's abrupt resignation, CENTCOM commander David Petraeus, the real problem Obama papered: counterinsurgency (coin) that McChrystal defended Petraeus strategy and almost invention can be serious errors in at least as practiced in Afghanistan.

These critics say that the result is the worst of all possible world: "A very long and bloody struggle in which we ourselves over the years, we win all the cheats, no chance to win." Something like Vietnam, in other words. "It's kind of sad irony that McChrystal and the collapse of a very troubled strategy confirmed will result in Monterey, which served in Afghanistan as a general California Arquilla Naval Postgraduate School John says: "I'm back in 2006, told Newsweek in a piece called" Jihadistan growth: "impasse may be over 40 or 50 years. the Taliban as long as NATO acquisition is not. instead America, such as K or Tribord area will be like a prolonged Out impasse affecting areas all intersect."