Afghan stability will take a generation-US general

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Source: Reuters

FORT BRAGG, N.C., April 29 (Reuters) - Stabilizing Afghanistan will need an international commitment lasting a generation, the general who has just spent more than a year commanding U.S. forces there said on Tuesday.

Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez, commander of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, said Afghan and international organizations had to work together closely to improve all aspects of daily life to win over ordinary Afghans.

"Everything is interrelated," he said in an interview at his headquarters at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

"There's no separation in the minds of the people out there," Rodriguez said. "It's the opportunities they have, it's the security they have and it's the ability to provide for their children."

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1. Traitor! Commie! Pantywaist!

Let's see, what else was I called when I said the exact same thing six years ago? That is, that this was no quick in-and-out affair, that we will get bogged down in this quagmire for a generation or longer.

Welcome to the Party, Comrade Major General.

[saigon68]

3. Yes and for 30 years, Blackwater, Eric Prince and the US Taxpayer

Will be there to help the Mayor of Kabul attempt to put ten (10) pounds of shit in a three(3) pound bag

[KakistocracyHater]

2. Our guys-6 weeks basic training

then get sent out, in Iraq etc., years & years.

[bemildred]

4. Afghan stability will take withdrawal of foreign troops. nt