For the January 11th Politics Daily, David Wood wrote a story titled, “Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working In Afghanistan, Critics Say.” In the piece he offer a laundry list of comments from opponents of the counter insurgency strategy being implemented by the senior US commander General David Petraeus. The article, however, cheery picks its comments to make assessments sound as dour as possible.

“The Center for a New American Security [CNAS}, a centrist Washington think tank, recommends,” Woods states, “shifting decisively away from the current large-scale counterinsurgency campaign to focus the military effort on al-Qaeda. Fighting the Taliban … Continue Reading