by Tom Andrews
Published on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
When it comes to Afghanistan, "military victory" is an oxymoron. Even President Obama and his Defense Secretary Robert Gates say so. Repeatedly.
The only path to peaceful resolution to the Afghanistan conundrum, they point out, is by winning the "hearts and minds" of the Afghan people.
That is why the grim news from Afghanistan about the cover up of the a botched US military raid of a baby shower near Gardez is so devastating. Unfortunately, the public response to-date from US and NATO officials in Kabul has been dreadful. It turns out that the Obama administration's Afghanistan strategy is being defeated by self-inflicted wounds, and it is unclear that US officials over there even have a clue that they continue to inflict them.
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