Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Preparate lo zaino, servono 400.000 rinforzi in Afghanistan

Mica palle.
Embedded in General Stanley McChrystal's classified assessment of the war in 
Afghanistan is his conclusion that a successful counterinsurgency strategy 
will require 500,000 troops over five years.
This bombshell was dropped by NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC's 
Morning Joe on Wednesday:
  The numbers are really pretty horrifying. What they say, embedded in this 
report by McChrystal, is they would need 500,000 troops - boots on the 
ground - and five years to do the job. No one expects that the Afghan Army 
could step up to that. Are we gonna put even half that of U.S. troops there, 
and NATO forces? No way. [Morning Joe, September 23, 2009]
Mitchell got the figure from an independent source. It was not revealed in 
the redacted version of the once classified report released by the Pentagon 
earlier this week. McChrystal has warned the administration that without an 
infusion of more troops the eight-year war in Afghanistan "will likely 
result in failure."
There are perhaps only two people in America who think that this level of 
commitment is sustainable by the United States and its allies, and they left 
office last January.
Thankfully, President Obama is re-thinking his Afghanistan strategy from top 
to bottom in light of McChrystal's report. In addition to the impossibility 
of sustaining the level of commitment this doomed-to-fail strategy would 
require are these stubborn facts:
  a.. 2009 is already the deadliest year for U.S. forces since the war began 
eight years ago. Fifty-one of the seven hundred and thirty eight U.S. 
soldiers who have lost their lives in Afghanistan were killed last month 
alone.
  b.. The national Afghanistan election that Ambassador Karl Eikenberry 
hoped would lead to a "renewal of trust of the Afghan people for their 
government" was a disaster and has had the opposite effect. The European 
Union election monitor has found that over 1 million votes for President 
Karzai, one third of his total, may be fraudulent. General McChrystal 
himself describes the Afghanistan government as "riddled with corruption". A 
government already mired in allegations of widespread fraud and corruption, 
now facing serious charges and compelling evidence that it has attempted to 
steal the national election, has no hope of regaining the support of the 
people of Afghanistan.
  c.. A February 2009 ABC/BBC/ARD poll found that only 18 percent of Afghans 
support increasing the number of U.S. troops in their country. This should 
come as no surprise. Historically, Afghans have always forcefully resisted 
the presence of foreign military forces, be they British, Soviet or 
American.
  d.. The presence of foreign forces strengthens the hand of Taliban 
recruiters. An independent analysis early this year by the Carnegie 
Institute concluded that the presence of foreign troops is probably the 
single most important factor in the resurgence of the Taliban.
Andrea Mitchell hit the nail on the head after revealing that 500,000 troops 
would be required over five years on MSNBC:
Would you prefer to have a president who doesn't shift strategy when he gets 
this kind of ground troop from the commanders?
Right question. And the answer is: NO!
Congress should immediately convene hearings to discuss alternatives to 
General McChrystal's proposal for such a massive escalation of the war in 
Afghanistan. It is time for the administration and Congress to demilitarize 
U.S. policy in Afghanistan and strike out in a new, sustainable, direction.
Congress Should Hold Hearings on Alternatives to Major Escalation Embedded 
in General Stanley McChrystal's classified assessment of the war in 
Afghanistan is his conclusion that a successful counteri...
Congress Should Hold Hearings on Alternatives to Major Escalation Embedded 
in General Stanley McChrystal's classified assessment of the war in 
Afghanistan is his conclusion that a successful counteri...
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Dopo l'invasione del 1974, i nostri alleati Turki hanno:
Saccheggiato e distrutto circa 500 chiese cristiane a Cipro.
Importato una comunita' turka che si e' sostituita ai 200.000 greci 
sfollati.
Pulizia etnica all'interno della NATO 

 will require 500,000 troops over five years.
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