General Sanchez and the Blame Game

[Rank amateur]

I don't know. It's not easy being in a no win situation. In the ad business clients sometimes insist that you do something stupid that you know isn't going to work. Telling them they're stupid doesn't work out too well. Usually, we muddle through trying to do the best we can and when it doesn't work the client fires us for doing what they asked.

Petraeus will probably be writing a book some day about why COIN didn't produce victory either.

It only made me less forgiving of Clark's choice to place the interest of the EU ahead of U.S. interests.

I'm not trying to be antagonistic, but for sake of discussion how do you feel about NATO forces that put European interests above American interests in Afghanistan?