British general agrees with McChrystal on A-stan

Sir David Roberts, Great Britain’s commander in Afghanistan, agrees with US commander Stanley McChrystal that the answer is a sizeable troop increase, which he says Britain would support, and not US Vice President Joe Biden’s counterinsurgency angle.

He says the Taliban needs to see some Western muscle.

I’m not sure on that one. The USSR showed plenty of muscle and look what happened.

Of course, on the flip side, we were arming the Taliban. Other than a few Gulf sheiks (who we need to clamp down on, period), no outsiders are arming them today.