U.S. must win Afghan hearts and minds, commander says

Although the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is requesting more troops and a new strategy, he says what is more important is winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people. He goes on to explain that if the U.S. is continually seen as a occupiers then we cannot win and casualties will go up dramatically. Former Secretary of State William Cohen agress and says that current U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is causing more ill feelings toward the U.S. and creating more insurgents then before. And that we must use General McChrystal's strategy if we want to be successful. If not, he says, we will be using our current counterterrorist strategy which means " you're going to start killing people, and thereby risk killing innocent civilians, and thereby creating more insurgents."

By Kyle Reilly