{"id":2613,"date":"2011-01-25T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T10:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2011-01-25T10:35:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T10:35:56","slug":"how_are_things_going_in_afghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"How Things Are Going In Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a link to a three page letter written on January 25, 2011, by General Petraeus to the troops.&nbsp; The letter was posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/comisaf-assessment.htm\">Michael Yon<\/a>&#8216;s website.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>There are a few things&nbsp;in the letter&nbsp;that I find encouraging:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The implementation of our stategy in 2010 was helped considerably by the deployment of additional ISAF (International Security Assistance Force)&nbsp;forces, the growth of the Afghan Army and Police, an increase in the number of our civilian partners, and the associated funding to enable it all.&nbsp; Indeed, together with the establishment of additional organizations and refinements of our stategy, the additional resources enabled us this past fall to get the &#8220;inputs&#8221; right in Afghanistan for the first time&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;In sum, 2010 was a year of significant, hard-fought accomplishments.&nbsp; The year ahead is likely to be a tough one, too.&nbsp; Again, though, I am confident that the combined efforts of ISAF and Afghan forces will enable further important progress in 2011.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There are two things to note here.&nbsp; Thank you to all our military troops and their families (who also serve), and thank you&nbsp;to General Petraeus for the job he is doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a link to a three page letter written on January 25, 2011, by General Petraeus to the troops.&nbsp; The letter was posted on Michael Yon&#8216;s website.&nbsp; There are a few things&nbsp;in the letter&nbsp;that I find encouraging: &#8220;The implementation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2613\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}