Mullen Admits he Got it Wrong on Afghanistan

 At least he is admitting that he was on the wrong side of this whole thing.

In our phone conversation the next morning, Mullen acknowledged that, back in 2009, he and all the other top officers and officials advised Obama to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan and to adopt a nation-building strategy. Biden was alone in calling for merely an extra 10,000 troops and to restrict their activities to training the Afghan army and fighting terrorists along the Afghan-Pakistani border. “He got it right,” Mullen said of Biden. “It would be hard to argue that [Biden’s proposal] wasn’t the right way to go.”

He said his people did not root out corruption to the extant that was needed and they built the Afghan army as a pseudo-American army that was dependent on us for close air-support, intelligence, etc. When we pulled out they either made a deal or ran for it.