Making Headway in Afghanistan

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If this is true, then it should silence John McCain and his fellow hawks who claim that setting a withdrawal date from Afghanistan weakens the cause.

Via Sen. Carl Levin we learn this.

According to Gen. William Caldwell, the new head of training the Afghan security forces, President Obama’s announcement that U.S. troops would begin to hand over combat responsibilities to Afghan forces in July 2011 had a “stunning” impact on Afghan recruiting for the Army and police.

“That had a very positive effect on the Afghan leadership and focused their energies on, for instance, obtaining a larger number of recruits for their army,” Levin said. While he said he didn’t have a total breakdown of the number of recruits, Levin said he was told that there were only 3500 Afghans going through an eight-week basic training course for the security forces in November. That’s up to 11,000 today.

Of course none of this will shut McCain up.  Minuscule minds don’t adapt well to ideas which differ from their own no matter what the facts say.

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