I agree with you to a point, Agree that this area needs to be delt with, but I feel we have a better chance of a long term freind in Iraq then Afganistan. If doing this cost us progress in Iraq it’s the wrong move.
I agree with that. We should not jeopardize the progress in Iraq.
I will say that I am leery of someone defining Afghanistan downward. We both remember a time when it was said Iraq would never be stabilized and we were the real problem there.
This person is just rolling out the old dogma in a new setting.
I do recognize a new dynamic, but those dynamics exist in Iraq in certain areas. My guess is we have had to tackle some of this already, in Iraq.