Wednesday, July 22, 2009
'We don't count enemy killed in action anymore'
Tom Friedman has an excellent column on Afghanistan. ... The good news: The absurd bring-'em-on/fly-paper/body-count mentality is gone. The bad news: It may be too late.
Update -- Hub Blog's past anti-bring-'em-on/fly-paper/body-count rants here, here and here. Iraq was the main obsession in 2003-2005. U.S. military leaders in Afghanistan later shifted to roughly the same absurd strategy and tactics.
Tom Friedman has an excellent column on Afghanistan. ... The good news: The absurd bring-'em-on/fly-paper/body-count mentality is gone. The bad news: It may be too late.
Update -- Hub Blog's past anti-bring-'em-on/fly-paper/body-count rants here, here and here. Iraq was the main obsession in 2003-2005. U.S. military leaders in Afghanistan later shifted to roughly the same absurd strategy and tactics.
