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To: stockman_scott who wrote (181890)	1/3/2010 3:36:17 PM
From: tejek	2 Recommendations Respond to of 362465

General McChrystal will get 30,000 troops and 18 months to prove his counterinsurgency plan can work. The cost to the United States will be immense, especially to an economy already bled dry by 60 years of cold war and its attendant thinking. If it can establish security for both the Afghan and Pakistani people, somehow spare innocent civilians and roll back extremist terror, it might work. If it doesn’t, no troop escalation or elaborate counterinsurgency doctrine can save Washington’s political class from the fight it went out of its way to ask for. As you know I am not happy with Obama's decision. I understand why he is doing it but I doubt he will succeed in stabilizing Pakistan and Afghanistan. For that reason, I hope at the end of 18 months he pulls back from Afghanistan no matter the situation at that time. I firmly believe that China, Russia and India need to be the stabilizing forces in that region, not the US.