I have been uneasy about the elevation of General McChrystal to the top position in Afghanistan, given his past. But I have had my uneasiness tempered a good bit by what he has to say about what must be done. He clearly “gets it,” and the tack he says he wants to take what is undoubtedly the right path to any kind of a meaningful end.

The question is, of course, whether or not 7 years of the moronic monkey’s murderous incompetence has doomed any chance of winning over the Afghani people. I’d say, given the monkey’s “successes” in every other aspect of his life, that the answer is a foregone conclusion. The monkey’s neglect of Afghanistan in favor of starting a war against people who were no danger to us went on for far too long, and then our belated response was far too brutal. And all of that leads, of course, to TOO LATE.

As always, heckuva job, Chimpy.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, in his first interview since being named the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said his front-row seat for the wars there and in Iraq has altered the view of combat he has held since training as a Green Beret to kill enemies quickly and stealthily.

After watching the U.S. try and fail for years to put down insurgencies in both countries, Gen. McChrystal said he believes that to win in Afghanistan, “You’re going to have to convince people, not kill them.

“Since 9/11, I have watched as America tried to first put out this fire with a hammer, and it doesn’t work,” he said last week at his home at Fort McNair in Washington. “Decapitation strategies don’t work.”

That’s the problem with cowards who start wars. Since they’ve never been within a continent of a battlefield, they tend to believe that “Rambo” is more docudrama than movie. When the “Rambo” method blows up, they are generally unable to fathom any other path.

The cowards who sat on top of these wars are STILL clueless as to how wrong they are, and how much blood their incompetence has spilled. Thankfully, they are gone-but we must be vigilant against the return of any of them.

Tags: afghanistan, bush, failure, incompetence

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