Note. This is too good. Excerpt from Victor Davis (read the whole thing here)...
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, retired three-star Army General Karl W. Eikenberry, reportedly made a comment about there being 41 nations serving in Afghanistan -- and a 42nd composed of the Marine Corps. One unnamed Obama administration official was quoted by the Washington Post as saying, "We have better operational coherence with virtually all of our NATO allies than we have with the U.S. Marine Corps."
Some officials call the new Marine enclave in Nimruz Province "Marinestan" -- as if, out of a Kipling or Conrad novel, the Marines have gone rogue to set up their own independent province of operations.
Check out an earlier article by the Washington Post on this issue "At Afghan outpost, Marines gone rogue or leading the fight against counterinsurgency?".
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/13/AR2010031302464.html
I know- it's the Post.