Afghanistan War + More Troops = Catastrophe (Trailer)
Sign the petition: http://rethinkafghanistan.com President Obama has committed 17000 more troops to Afghanistan. This decision raises serious questions about troops, costs, overall mission,...
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Simply sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan will not solve the problem. People talk about troops. Well, we should be really talking about what's their strategy? How is this going to benefit the local Afghan? The possibility of casualties may create more enemies or insurgents. There's a saying right now in the U.S. military that when you bomb a village and kill civilians, you've lost that village forever. There's only one way to win a counter-insurgency, and that is to bring the population over to your side. Today we are losing the battle of the hearts and minds. What we are witnessing, is a regional and local nationalist opposition to American and western military control. Each warlord in each district in each provence he ha...
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Simply sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan will not solve the problem. People talk about troops. Well, we should be really talking about what's their strategy? How is this going to benefit the local Afghan? The possibility of casualties may create more enemies or insurgents. There's a saying right now in the U.S. military that when you bomb a village and kill civilians, you've lost that village forever. There's only one way to win a counter-insurgency, and that is to bring the population over to your side. Today we are losing the battle of the hearts and minds. What we are witnessing, is a regional and local nationalist opposition to American and western military control. Each warlord in each district in each provence he ha...
