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    this just in... the US Military is getting their ass handed to them in Afghanistan...

    "This new analysis of the Afghan War shows that the US has failed to meet these goals in every respect. It shows that the US has failed to commit anything like the resources it committed to the war in Iraq. Year after year, the US has been slow to commit the resources required. It shows that the US failed to provide substantial funds early in the war, when nation building and stability operations might well have stopped the resurgence of the Taliban and growth of the insurgency, and then reacted to the growth of the threat with inadequate resources and funding of the US military, US aid and diplomacy, and Afghan force development efforts.

    These basic resource problems are compounded by the failure to provide adequate numbers of US troops, the failure to provide the number of military trainers and mentors needed to create effective Afghan Army and police forces, and by the failure to provide the personnel needed to use aid funds quickly and effectively. In practice, the US not only has underfunded its military and civilian aid programs, it has not been able to spend the limited money it actually has budgeted because of severe shortages in qualified aid personnel.

    The end result is a consistent US and NATO/ISAF inability to seize the initiative and defeat the insurgency. It is a legacy of underfunding that has progressively increased the length and total cost of the war in human lives, wounded, and dollars. "

    http://www.csis.org/component/op…

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    • "ass handed to them" is a bit harsh. They certainly haven't met mission objectives thoughTheBlueOne
    • What's wrong with that? the Russians got their ass handed to them too in Afghan...robotron3k
    • russians got more than their asses handed to them..Mirpour
    • well, the brits, the russians and maybe the US now seem to have lost their empires among the rocky crags of the afghan mountains..TheBlueOne
    • mountains...TheBlueOne
    • might well have stopped the resurgence of the Taliban and growth of the insurgency... that's a big if.
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    • its a 15th c narco state with alot of peasants the US is not changing that only Indian TV soaps will.
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