US had 'frighteningly simplistic' view of Afghanistan, says McChrystal

general who led Obama's strategy of "surge", said the army still lacks the local knowledge to end the conflict

one of the most famous general of the United States has issued a severe indictment of his country's campaign in Afghanistan in the 10th anniversary of the invasion to oust the Taliban.

The United States began the war with a "terribly simplistic" view of Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said at retirement, and even now the army has not enough knowledge local to bring the conflict to an end.

The U.S. and NATO are "50% of the way" towards achieving its objectives in Afghanistan, told the Council on Foreign Relations.

"We do not know enough and know enough yet. Most of us, myself included, had a very superficial understanding of the situation and history, and we had a terribly simplistic the recent history, the past 50 years. "

McChrystal head the Obama administration's "surge" strategy that began in 2009 and sent to U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan to over 100,000. Widely recognized as a talented military leader, was forced to resign last year amid controversy over comments he made in Rolling Stone.

The 10th anniversary of the war, marked on Friday, has been careful consideration in the U.S. on a long conflict in Vietnam as the longest war of the army.

Just over 2,750 foreign soldiers have died

- 28% of them in Helmand -., While that between 14,000 and 18,000 civilians were killed in the fighting, an estimated of

However, although the United States entered Afghanistan to capture Osama bin Laden and overthrow the Taliban, its most important goals quickly slipped across the border with Pakistan.

The leader of al-Qaeda was discovered in Abbottabad, north of Islamabad, last May, while the Taliban have used bases in remote border tribal areas of Pakistan has launched a strong resurgence.

Commenting on the evening of Thursday, McChrystal also indirectly criticized the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq in 2003, saying that success in Afghanistan was more difficult to achieve. Invasion "changed the vision of the Muslim world of U.S. efforts," he said.

"When we went after the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, there was some understanding that we had the ability and right to defend ourselves and the fact that Al Qaeda has been fed by the Taliban was legitimate. I think when we decided to go to Iraq, which was less legitimate [in the eyes of the Muslim world]. "

The 10th anniversary was also marked in a pessimistic way in Afghanistan, where U.S. talk-driven "nation building" has largely evaporated. Despite $ 57 billion in international aid since 2001, humanitarian agencies that most people remain mired in deep poverty.

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