President Obama is engaged in a comprehensive policy review of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and meetings this week at the White House have produced a flurry of news reports about about the situation there. In this report in the LA Times, General Stanley McChrystal makes the case for a “troop-intensive counter-insurgency strategy” that would call for a dramatic increase in the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to counter the resurgent Taliban rather than the UAV drone-centered high-tech low-troop approach favored by some in the administration. Lest you think that the news out of Afghanistan is all bad, I’d like to point you to this video report from the BBC, which notes a recent success by allied forces in Helmand province working to rebuild a war shattered village. Can drones do that?
