NATO: Marjah about 3 months from success

[unhappycamper]

NATO: Marjah about 3 months from success
By Anne Gearan - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday May 26, 2010 12:22:24 EDT

WASHINGTON — A senior NATO general in Afghanistan says it will probably be months before Afghans in Marjah shun the Taliban and form a strong local government.

British Maj. Gen. Nick Carter told reporters Wednesday that the 3-month-old, U.S.-led NATO operation in the southern region has been a military success. But Afghans in Marjah have been reluctant to form a strong government capable of shaking off Taliban influence.

Carter, who is NATO's commander in southern Afghanistan, acknowledges that the process of building a new local government could take three to four months. Carter said a second major offensive in Kandahar was on schedule to ramp up this summer.



:woohoo:

[SoCalDem]

1. and then what?

We stay forever or prop them up financially forever..or they go back to the open arms of the taliban..

Uneducated tribal people form bonds where they need to, and then form new ones when the old ones are no longer in their best interest.