Charles Hoskinson
MCCHRYSTAL TOLD REPORTERS THURSDAY that the United States began the war with a “frighteningly simplistic” view of the country and still lacks the knowledge necessary to bring the war to a successful conclusion. “We didn’t know enough and we still don’t know enough,” he said at the Council on Foreign Relations. http://wapo.st/rj90Gj

THE WEBCAST OF HIS REMARKS will be available here later today: http://on.cfr.org/qpVx7K

AS U.S. TROOPS BEGIN THEIR DRAWDOWN THIS YEAR, officials are scaling down their ambitions for a successful conclusion, the Washington Post reports today, saying “the good war” has become “the good-enough war.” You can read the story here: http://wapo.st/q61zca

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