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The Firing Of McKiernan, Ctd
ByJoe Klein weighs in:
McKiernan's caution may have been the right impulse. Here is the basic
problem: unlike Iraq, where tribal Awakening Councils were stood up to
fight the Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) terrorists--who were mostly foreign
imports--the local militias in Afghanistan are being asked to fight
their own Pashtun brothers, the Taliban. When I was in Afghanistan last
month, a Pashtun from Wardak warned Richard Holbrooke and Admiral Mike
Mullen that many of the people signing up for the local militia were
from the Hazara minority. "It won't work," the man said. "The Pashtun
see this as not our government."
