giovedì 29 agosto 2019

Got to be a joker

Q: When you said that there might be a time in the future where the Afghan partners have the ability to be the counterterror force, to keep any kind of terrorism out of Afghanistan, that might be in the future, are they capable of that now? Are you ready to say the Afghan Security Forces could secure that country without outside help? GEN. DUNFORD: No. In the current environment, the current environment today, at the level of violence associated with the insurgency, I think we and the Afghans agree that some degree of support is necessary. That's why we have forces on the ground inside of Afghanistan today. But again, I want to make sure, when I spoke about Afghanistan securing itself in the future, I was very clear, I'm not affixing a time horizon to that or specific conditions. I was just answering a question. Right now, it's our judgment that the Afghans need support to deal with the level of violence that is associated with the insurgency today. If  an agreement happens in the future, if the security environment changes, then obviously our posture may adjust. Q: But that's more than monetary support, it's actual physical military support of them? GEN. DUNFORD: That's right. Those are all -- that's a level of support we're providing today that will change -- one thing I'm sure, based on, even, since my time in Afghanistan, many of you recall, we had 140,000 coalition forces there when I arrived in 2013, and about 15,000 or 22,000, I think, total coalition and U.S. forces today. So significantly different. The one thing I'm sure of in the future is that our posture is going to adjust.

E' possibile che un accordo tra Talebani e governo degli Stati Uniti, che in concreto esclude tutte le altre parti del panorama afghano, riesca a cambiare questo scenario che è il frutto di decenni di impegno sul campo e milioni di dollari spesi ?
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