Victory in Afghanistan is possible, Mattis says

[unhappycamper]

Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis appears July 27 before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his nomination hearing.


Victory in Afghanistan is possible, Mattis says
By Anne Flaherty - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jul 27, 2010 17:46:44 EDT

WASHINGTON — The general chosen to lead U.S. Central Command said Tuesday that victory in Afghanistan was possible and expressed optimism that troops would start coming home in a year.

Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, the tough-talking Marine who helped lead the invasion of Iraq, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he supported the strategy in Afghanistan laid out by President Obama and Army Gen. David Petraeus.

If confirmed as expected, Mattis would replace Petraeus at Central Command and oversee U.S. military operations across the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran. Petraeus left the plum assignment to take over combat in Afghanistan after Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal was fired.

“We will have some bad days ahead, but so long as we hold fast and adapt faster than the enemy, the enemy’s situation will continue to worsen,” Mattis told lawmakers.

Mattis defined success in Afghanistan as propping up an Afghan government that is stable enough to keep “extremists” from using the country as a terrorist base.

:woohoo:

[dipsydoodle]

1. Dream on

sucker.

[AzDar]

2. Five-Plane McCain still believes Vietnam was winnable...

we just left too early, yanno? :eyes:

Delusional old warmongers...

[asjr]

3. I am so tired of our country being

the caretaker of the world.

[spanone]

4. warmongers are paid to wage war....not peace

[Erose999]

5. About once a year some general makes a statement that "victory is possible within a year"

I think thats probably the fast-track to career advancement in the military. If I enlist tomorrow and start making statements to the press about how "victory is within reach" I could probably be Secretary of Defense within a year.

[hobbit709]

6. My mother tells me how in the spring of 1945

The Nazi propaganda radio was still going on about how they were going to win their glorious war as you could hear the Soviet artillery on the outskirts of Vienna.

About the same level of delusion

[n2doc]

7. It's 'possible' my farts will smell like roses

but extremely unlikely. Same probability here.