Re: The folks on the ground, the ones actually there -- like the ones I just posted . . .
If you're going to counter the Pentagon, you could do a little better than saying the people in their article who had just returned from Afghanistan weren't really there -- couldn't you? And I don't really see the parallel I think you’re attempting to draw between what the folks hunting through hot villages for armed killers see and what the folks working with the citizenry outside the suspected Taliban regions see.
I would think it would be a different picture between the two. Why wouldn’t you?
Dan