Time To Admit Afghan Strategy Isn't Working Posted by Michael Cohen

Over at AOL I have a new piece up arguing (surprise, surprise) the big takeaway from Bite-Me-Gate it that the current strategy isn't working: 

The bombshell Rolling Stone article featuring disparaging quotes from Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff about civilian leaders has shaken official Washington over the past 24 hours. As it should. Their words demonstrate a breathtaking level of arrogance, poor judgment and behavior verging on formal insubordination.

But while we wait to see how President Barack Obama will respond, there is a far more important takeaway from this episode: Increasingly, it appears that the president's strategy for success in Afghanistan simply is not working. 

In fact, the most important quote from the article might be the admission by a senior adviser to McChrystal that "if Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular." Maybe now they will.

Since last year, McChrystal's strategy has been one of population-centric counterinsurgency, a resource- and time-intensive strategy that focuses on cultivating the hearts and minds of local civilians rather than targeting the enemy directly. According to the Army's counterinsurgency manual, the key to an effective "COIN" strategy is a reliable host country partner that is seen as legitimate in the eyes of its citizens. But as the Rolling Stone piece makes clear, McChrystal's approach is failing. 

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