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Insiders secretly blamed Bush and Obama for faulty Afghan war strategies
April 17, 2020
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Donna Miller
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US authorities insiders privately blamed former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama for turning the navy mission in Afghanistan into America’s longest war by repeatedly increasing it past a response to the Sept. 11 terror assaults, in response to a report Monday.
Paperwork obtained by the Washington Put up present that former officers instructed authorities interviewers that each commanders-in-chief did not develop strategies for a transparent victory — despite the fact that the leaders of al Qaeda and the Taliban had been killed, captured or pressured into hiding inside six months of the US invasion.
“If there was ever a notion of mission creep, it’s Afghanistan,” Richard Boucher, the State Division’s former high diplomat for South Asia, admitted in 2015.
“We’ve got to say adequate is nice sufficient. That’s the reason we’re there 15 years later. We are attempting to realize the unachievable as a substitute of reaching the achievable.”
James Dobbins, who served as a particular envoy to Afghanistan beneath each presidents, mentioned Bush’s choice to go away troops there whereas additionally planning to invade Iraq was an important — and apparent — blunder.
“First, you recognize, kind of simply invade just one nation at a time. I imply that severely,” Dobbins mentioned in 2016.
“They take plenty of high-level time and consideration and we’ll overload the system if we do multiple of those at a time.”
Obama’s plan to defeat the Taliban with a large counterinsurgency marketing campaign, and his promise to convey house all American troops by the top of his presidency, have been additionally inevitably doomed to fail, the paperwork reveal.
“There have been quite a lot of faulty assumptions within the technique: Afghanistan is prepared for democracy in a single day, the inhabitants will assist the federal government in a short while body, extra of all the things is best,” retired Military Col. Bob Crowley, who served as a counterinsurgency adviser, mentioned in 2016.
The devastating critiques are contained in additional than 2,000 pages of data that the paper obtained by submitting swimsuit towards the Workplace of the Particular Inspector Common for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
The auditing company, created by Congress in 2008, spent $11 million on a mission known as “Classes Discovered” that concerned having staffers interview greater than 600 individuals with firsthand information of the war in an try to stop the US from repeating the errors made in Afghanistan.
https://gruntstuff.com/insiders-sec...obama-for-faulty-afghan-war-strategies/33400/
April 17, 2020
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Donna Miller
2 Min Read
US authorities insiders privately blamed former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama for turning the navy mission in Afghanistan into America’s longest war by repeatedly increasing it past a response to the Sept. 11 terror assaults, in response to a report Monday.
Paperwork obtained by the Washington Put up present that former officers instructed authorities interviewers that each commanders-in-chief did not develop strategies for a transparent victory — despite the fact that the leaders of al Qaeda and the Taliban had been killed, captured or pressured into hiding inside six months of the US invasion.
“If there was ever a notion of mission creep, it’s Afghanistan,” Richard Boucher, the State Division’s former high diplomat for South Asia, admitted in 2015.
“We’ve got to say adequate is nice sufficient. That’s the reason we’re there 15 years later. We are attempting to realize the unachievable as a substitute of reaching the achievable.”
James Dobbins, who served as a particular envoy to Afghanistan beneath each presidents, mentioned Bush’s choice to go away troops there whereas additionally planning to invade Iraq was an important — and apparent — blunder.
“First, you recognize, kind of simply invade just one nation at a time. I imply that severely,” Dobbins mentioned in 2016.
“They take plenty of high-level time and consideration and we’ll overload the system if we do multiple of those at a time.”
Obama’s plan to defeat the Taliban with a large counterinsurgency marketing campaign, and his promise to convey house all American troops by the top of his presidency, have been additionally inevitably doomed to fail, the paperwork reveal.
“There have been quite a lot of faulty assumptions within the technique: Afghanistan is prepared for democracy in a single day, the inhabitants will assist the federal government in a short while body, extra of all the things is best,” retired Military Col. Bob Crowley, who served as a counterinsurgency adviser, mentioned in 2016.
The devastating critiques are contained in additional than 2,000 pages of data that the paper obtained by submitting swimsuit towards the Workplace of the Particular Inspector Common for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
The auditing company, created by Congress in 2008, spent $11 million on a mission known as “Classes Discovered” that concerned having staffers interview greater than 600 individuals with firsthand information of the war in an try to stop the US from repeating the errors made in Afghanistan.
https://gruntstuff.com/insiders-sec...obama-for-faulty-afghan-war-strategies/33400/
