Saturday, March 08, 2008
American Enterprise Institute wants another surge
This time in Afghanistan. There is one small obstacle, the deputy commanding general of Combined Joint Task Force 82, Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel says that's not what we need.
“it’s hard for me as a guy in uniform to not want more soldiers here, but frankly, that’s not what we need,” he said.We know which way Our Dear Embattled Leader wants to go, don't we.
Instead, he said, the country and its government are in desperate need of other types of specialists, such as engineers, farmers, agronomists, hydroelectric power experts and transportation experts...
...Votel, who said he had not seen the report, said that “what we need here are people who can come in and develop big-time power.”
“We’ve got dozens and dozens of water projects ... That’s great, but what we need is” power-generating stations on par with the big dams in the U.S.
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