In an in-depth interview with the Times of London gearing up for the London Conference on Afghanistan later this week, CENTCOM commander General David Petraeus again cautioned that the war was going to “get harder before it gets easier.”
Likening the January 2007 surge in Iraq to President Obama’s December escalation, the general said he thought that the war in Afghanistan was going to take longer than the war in Iraq.
Perhaps even more troubling over eight years after the war began, Gen. Petraeus insisted he still hasn’t heard any talk of setting a timetable for the end of the war, and said any predictions would be “premature.” Several nations had hoped to use the London Conference to set out some sort of exit strategy for the seemingly endless conflict.
In fact, Petraeus suggested that the London Conference would not so much focus on setting a timetable for a transition, but on deciding “what transition actually means.” Though he provided little in the way of detail, it does suggest that officials have abandoned the pretense of starting the pullout in 2011.
Petraeus should be FIRED! Anyone with half a brain and who has ever read the History of Afghanistan would realize that there is NO winning a war in that country by anyone.
The object is not to win. The object is endless and perpetual war for Wall Street profits and military promotions for the officer's corps.
robert the ass you speak of is yourself you non american commie
I've said it before and I will say it again: the political-military-industrial-banking-corporate establishment will not be satisfied until they have driven the American economy into the ground with their endless and perpetual wars. The American economy is on its knees and is teetering on the edge of total collapse. Tens of millions are unemployed or underemployed, tens of millions are without adequate health care, tens number of millions of Americans are now on food stamps and millions have been thrown out of their homes or are about to be . How much more are the American people willing to take before millions of us hit the streets in protest. Have the American people become a nation of sheep to be sheared and slaughtered by the ruling establishment? To hell with the imperial empire; it is time to put Americans first again.