[coolsurfer]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Hard to take the guy seriously when he talks like this:



He doesn't sound very professional. Being happy about tactical success is one thing, but being happy about; "whacking a bunch of guys".... They're probably better off without him in Afghanistan since the main goal there is to win the hearts and minds of the people and not whack as many as possible. The war in Afghanistan is first and foremost a war on poverty, authoritarianism and gender inequality. A kill'em all stratefy won't work there.

We should be there for the main reason that a faction from there that was under the protection of their government attacked our closest ally. My only opposition to the mission is that I didn't think the former US administration cared enough about the war there.

Well I guess some guys with a little more vested in the situation did take him very seriously:

The reaction to Hoh's letter was immediate. Senior U.S. officials, concerned that they would lose an outstanding officer and perhaps gain a prominent critic, appealed to him to stay.
U.S. Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry brought him to Kabul and offered him a job on his senior embassy staff. Hoh declined. From there, he was flown home for a face-to-face meeting with Richard C. Holbrooke, the administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"We took his letter very seriously, because he was a good officer," Holbrooke said in an interview. "We all thought that given how serious his letter was, how much commitment there was, and his prior track record, we should pay close attention to him."