'Nobody is winning' Afghan war, admits McChrystal - World - NZ Herald News
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Three months after the operation in Marjah, however, local people say the Taleban still control Marjah at night. Shops are still closed and no schools have reopened. Education officials who came at the height of the US-led offensive have fled again. The local governor says he has just one temporary teacher teaching 60 children in the ruins of a school. Aid is not arriving. The Taleban are replacing mines, the notorious IEDs, removed by US troops and often use the same holes to hide them in.
Pentagon officials increasingly agree with the Afghan villagers that the Marjah operation failed to end Taleban control and put the Afghan government in charge. This puts in doubt General McChrystal's whole strategy which also governs the way in which 10,000 British troops are deployed. He is being held to account for earlier optimism such as his claim at the height of Marjah offensive that "we've got a government in a box ready to roll in". Three months later, people in Marjah say they have yet to see much sign of the Afghan government.
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No matter what they do, they will always fail in their missions, it doesnt matter what happens, this is just a proof to the deniers that this war is pointless and it only fuels terrorism worldwide.
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