Blogger's Roundtable: COL McGrath on Afghanistan

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Colonel Thomas McGrath joined us to give us an update on Southern Afghanistan. I asked him about some worrisome comments from President Karzai, noted by The Captain's Journal.

GRIM:  Sir, I wanted to ask about President Karzai's comments that were reported by The New York Times where he said that he wanted American forces to stop arresting suspected Taliban and their sympathizers, and the continued threat of arrest and past mistreatment, as The New York Times quoted him, were discouraging Taliban from coming forward to lay down their arms. To what degree do you feel that that is a true critique? And are you talking it on board at all in your operations?

COL. MCGRATH: Well, you know, I heard it. I haven't put too much -- I haven't changed any of my operations down here based on that. I haven't received any direction to do that, Grim. So we're driving on as usual.

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Blogger's Roundtable: COL McGrath on Afghanistan

Colonel Thomas McGrath joined us to give us an update on Southern Afghanistan. I asked him about some worrisome comments from President Karzai, noted by The Captain's Journal.

GRIM:  Sir, I wanted to ask about President Karzai's comments that were reported by The New York Times where he said that he wanted American forces to stop arresting suspected Taliban and their sympathizers, and the continued threat of arrest and past mistreatment, as The New York Times quoted him, were discouraging Taliban from coming forward to lay down their arms. To what degree do you feel that that is a true critique? And are you talking it on board at all in your operations?

COL. MCGRATH: Well, you know, I heard it. I haven't put too much -- I haven't changed any of my operations down here based on that. I haven't received any direction to do that, Grim. So we're driving on as usual.

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