Check out this quote in Julian Barnes’ Los Angeles Times piece on the fallout from the McChrystal strategy review leak: One defense analyst who regularly
“„One defense analyst who regularly advises the military and who spoke on condition of anonymity said the administration was suffering from “buyer’s remorse for this war.”
“„“They never really thought about what was required, and now they have sticker shock,” the analyst said.
“„While the U.S. official cautioned that a legitimacy crisis following the election would “forestall progress on all other areas,” some saw such a crisis as an unlikely scenario. “Karzai would be a fool to do something seen as anti-democratic,” a former intelligence officer with experience in Afghanistan who requested anonymity said. Nawaz pegged the odds for the election resulting in a government seen as illegitimate at 30 percent.