Last night Rachel Maddow asked some hard questions about the war, as we enter Year Nine. In this four and a half minute clip, she especially questions whether our partners in Afghanistan and Pakistan can deliver victory. These last weeks and months have featured endless stories of corruption, incompetence and betrayal.
This site has been dedicated to projecting perspectives often lost when the debate is framed in Congress or on mainstream television. Some posts have questioned the need for a military occupation, for conventional warfare. Here, Maddow is questioning even the viability of any counter insurgency. A counter insurgency simply cannot work without the cooperation of local people and local leaders. So far, the jury is still out as to whether we have that cooperation now, or if we ever will.
Rachel Maddow has had a tremendous year on television, and her twin qualities as an open lesbian and unabashed liberal on major television news has endeared her to many people. But issues of war and peace are more sensitive and more high stakes than most debates in the beltway, so Maddow really had to bring it. This week she most certainly did.
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