The Runaway General | Rolling Stone Politics
the other 6 pages: 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Best quotes
From a senior adviser to McChrystal:
"If Americans pulled back and started paying attention to this war, it would become even less popular" (pg 6)
From Andrew Wilder on how useless throwing money at the problem is:
"A tsunami of cash fuels corruption, delegitimizes the government and creates an environment where we're picking winners and losers" (pg 6)
And one final one about what the war actually is good at doing:
So far, counterinsurgency has succeeded only in creating a never-ending demand for the primary product supplied by the military: perpetual war. (pg 6)