Diana West: JCC Mullen: "Trust" Is All You Need

In January 2009. Adm. Mike Mullen -- he who failed to present and then sabotaged a non-COIN Afghan war plan for the POTUS, says Woodward -- wrote that our problem in Afghanistan (after seven years of American sacifice to ward off Taliban depredations against "the people") is that the US hadn't yet won Afghan trust.

That was idiotic then (here's why) and it's idiotic now as Mullen applies his trust plan to Pakistan, where the "moderate" government is blocking the NATO supply trucks the "extremists" are burning. Read more...