Sunday, 9 October 2011

German General Says NATO Mission Has 'Failed'

Der Spiegel
A top German general who was instrumental in planning the Bundeswehr's
mission in Afghanistan has said that the intervention has failed and the
Taliban will regain power within months of withdrawal. Ten years
after the invasion, he is far from alone with his critique.
  It was 10 years ago that the United States, together with its NATO allies, marched into Afghanistan to put an end to Taliban rule and begin the hunt for al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. A decade later, the terrorist leader is dead. But, says Harald Kujat, former general inspector of the German military, the mission has been a failure.

"The mission fulfilled the political aim of showing solidarity with the United States," Kujat told the German daily Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. "But if you measure progress against the goal of stabilizing a country and a region, then the mission has failed."

Kujat said that it was ignored fo [...]



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