Stanley McChrystal’s Long War

A PERILOUS WALK Marines on patrol en route to Mian Poshteh. Minutes later, a bomb that was buried in the road exploded. | Peter van Agtmael / Magnum via NY Times

Dexter Filkins, The New York Times | Full Story | The magnitude of the choice presented by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, and now facing President Obama, is difficult to overstate. For what McChrystal is proposing is not a temporary, Iraq-style surge — a rapid influx of American troops followed by a withdrawal. McChrystal’s plan is a blueprint for an extensive American commitment to build a modern state in Afghanistan, where one has never existed, and to bring order to a place famous for the empires it has exhausted. Even under the best of circumstances, this effort would most likely last many more years, cost hundreds of billions of dollars and entail the deaths of many more American women and men.

And that’s if it succeeds. >>

Published 09.10.14 00:00:00 -0500 GMT | Posted by Andrew Garib on 09.10.15 | |

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