Submitted by Michael on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 09:08
The apparent appointment of David Petraeus to lead the Central Intelligence Agency has short and long term implications. In the short term, it signifies that the war in Afghanistan is about to move underground. The numbers no longer justify our continued presence there. If Al Qaeda has been reduced to only a few hundred foreign fighters hunkered down in Pakistan, having over a hundred thousand troops in Afghanistan only succeeds in providing the Taliban with over a hundred thousand targets. The only effective forces in the region now are CIA operatives in Pakistan.
