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The Pentagon's pre-emptive strike came with the leak of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's confidential review of the Afghan war to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post.
McChrystal's painting of the military picture was grim.
"Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible."
If I don't get the troops to reverse the Taliban gains, said McChrystal, we face "mission failure." A Saigon ending to...
The Generals' War
Once back in the US, he was arrested for drugs, getitng in a fight with his dad, and a host of other things. He claimed it was because of post trauma from Singapore, the truth wa she was a punk before he went there, when he was there and after he was there. I lost track of him in the late 1990s, I wonder what prison he is in now?