CNN: U.S. 'Cannot Win the War in Afghanistan

Despite the change in administration, CNN’s Michael Ware, who regularly issued doom-and-gloom reports on Iraq in past years, bluntly stated during a report on Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360 that

"To put it simply, America cannot win the war in Afghanistan. ... Right now, there’s as many as 100 Taliban on that mountaintop between the snowcapped peaks and amid those trees. They’re currently under siege from local villagers, who are driving them from their bunkers.

But at the end of the day, it’s the Pakistani military who tolerates the presence of groups like the Taliban, and it’s not until America can start cutting deals with these people that there’s any hope of the attacks on American troops coming to an end."

[So, villagers are kicking their asses out of towns, but the US military can't win the war. He seems to have forgotten that the US accomplished in months what Russia failed to do in a decade. I.e., it most certainly can do so again - provided it retains the will to do so.

But the MSM will do its best to defeate it, as always.]

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image toon - gwot islm = 8000 more troops to Afghanistan = surge
[Please don't use the word 'surge', that's a Bushism]