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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips early indochina clipped by: lldenmark Clip Source: books.google.com Tags: vietnam zum Artikel... vietnam pics clipped by: lldenmark Clip Source: www.pbs.org Tags: viet zum Artikel... "We?re not going to win this war." clipped by: baydawg clippers remarks: but maybe we can negotiate an exit if we sit down and talk Clip Source: original.antiwar.com As former British Foreign Service officer Rory Stewart argues, "when the decision to increase the number of troops in 2005 was made, there was no insurgency." Indeed, the surge ? and the civilian casualties that accompanied it ? ignited the current resistance movement. Back then the Taliban controlled 54% of the country. Today that figure is 72% and rising. The illusion is that adding 21,000 troops to the 38,000 U.S. soldiers and 50,000 NATO soldiers could possibly make a difference. The United States, with 500,000 soldiers, couldn?t prevail in Vietnam, a country of 67,000 square miles and 19 million people. Afghanistan has half again that population and 250,000 square miles of some of the planet?s most unforgiving terrain. As Brigadier General Mark Carleton-Smith, Britain?s top military officer in Afghanistan, bluntly told the Sunday Times, "We?re not going to win this war." Tags: conversation, war on afghanistan, af-pak war, surge, failure zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de