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| Petraeus Says Tide is Turning Against Taliban Momentum |
| 2010-08-23 |
| US General David Petraeus has said that the international troops he commands in Afghanistan have turned the tide on the Taliban's momentum there, although he warned tough battles still lay ahead. In an interview with the BBC, he played down the prospect of a rapid withdrawal of US troops next year, repeating his insistence that a target of July 2011 was only a date when a process begins. He said the road ahead could be bloody but insisted foreign forces were making progress. "The momentum that the Taliban have established over the course of recent years has been reversed in many areas and will be reversed in the other areas as well. This will entail tough fighting," he said. "July 2011 is not the date when the US forces begin an exodus and look for the exit," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 #1: I wonder what concrete metrics the good general uses to measure Taliban momentum? Anybody know? Posted by: Mike Ramsey See "Jobless recovery." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-08-23 21:07 |
| #4 I noticed aa few Headstones here with funny messages carved on them, how about the "We're not leaving" message on one, it kinda says it all. Jim |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-08-23 09:53 |
| #3 The media is the massage. To have a good outlay of "we are not leaving " is a good one to have - at least until it is stable. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-08-23 05:14 |
| #2 In classical mechanics, momentum (pl. momenta; SI unit kg·m/s, or, equivalently, N·s) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object (p = mv). Maybe they just aren't moving as fast. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2010-08-23 03:30 |
| #1 I wonder what concrete metrics the good general uses to measure Taliban momentum? Anybody know? |
| Posted by: Mike Ramsey 2010-08-23 01:36 |