Jim Molan on Afghanistan

The 13 November 2009 edition of The Age contains an important op-ed piece (see here) on Afghanistan by Major-General (Retd.) Jim Molan, author of Running the War in Iraq.

I would take a lot of convincing that this war is actually winnable (whatever that means), but it is hard to disagree with General Molan’s overarching thesis that we need to get serious or get out, and with the main elements of that thesis – that if we are there to impress our allies, we need to have enough troops there to impress them, and if we are there to protect the local population we need to have enough troops there to protect all of the people all of the time, not just some of the people some of the time.