Summary
A clear signal of the new strategy was the sacking in mid-May of Gen. David McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan considered too conventional, and his replacement by a counter-insurgency expert, Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who commanded America's Joint Special Operations Command for five years, from 2003 to 2008. The U.N. and several human rights organizations criticized Israel for the largescale killing of civilians and the massive destruction of homes, mosques, schools, factories and agricultural land.
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Obama's New Af-Pak Strategy
U.S. President Barack Obama has chosen to adopt a high-risk counterinsurgency strategy against the Taliban militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The choice is itself a pointer to the gravity with which Washington views the deteriorating situation in this vital theatre of war.
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