RC/CA

Jun 25th, 2009 @ 6:18 pm

Why not fix Mexico, which has much more strategic importance to the United States? The idea of sending 60K military personnel into Mexico and spending 10s or 100s of billions of dollars to overcome Mexico's political corruption, suppress the drug smuggling, create security institutions, and redeem its school system would seem insane to most. And yet, when the same solution set is outlined for Afghanistan, everyone thinks it's the obvious answer. Our national security interests are distorted - we need to treat Afghanistan as if it were any one of the many other small nations with which the US government does business and develop astrategy that invests the lowest possible costs. As for Nagl's idea of a global COIN campaign, we do not need that and we cannot afford that.

I post a lot of links I mean to be thought-provoking, and not necessarily representative of my opinions (which tend to be rather fluid).  This time, however, I’ll follow Bacevich out of the shadows and finally declare that I think COIN sucks.

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