Via Ed Morrissey, on ABC's This Week Senator Dianne Feinstein was very supportive of General McChrystal's counterinsurgency strategy.
"Now, if you're going to stay, you have to have a way of winning. The question is, what is that way? And I think the counterinsurgency strategy, which means protecting the people, not shooting from afar, but securing, taking, holding, and providing security for a period of time is really critical," she said. "...I don't know how you put somebody in who was as crackerjack as General McChrystal, who gives the president very solid recommendations, and not take those recommendations if you're not going to pull out."
Feinstein also pointed out that the dire consequences that could befall the women of Afghanistan if ground is ceded to the Taliban: "I particularly worry about women in Afghanistan, acid in their face of children -- girl children who go to school, women who can't work when they're widowed, huddled on the streets, begging, women beaten and shot in stadiums, you know, Shari'a law with all of its violence, I mean, that's one element of the -- of the Taliban."
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