Two Russian veterans of the Soviet Afghan war privately warned Gen. Stanley McChrystal last summer that the key to winning the war would be to pay off the Taliban. The official who wrote up a summary of two meetings between the Russians and US military commanders also wrote that one of the "key take-aways" from the meetings was that extra troops were not the key to victory, the ABC news reported in Friday.
The ABCNews.com has obtained a document summarizing the discussions between two veterans of the Soviet Union's failed Afghan war and McChrystal, the top US general in Afghanistan, during an August 2009 video teleconference. The document also summarizes a private in-person meeting in Moscow between the two Russians and American Brig. Gen. Henry Nowak, the ABC News says.
It is be be mentioned that Gen. McChrystal and Brig. Gen. Henry Nowak surely had talks with active Russian military leadership and not with "veterans" who held the rank of lieutenants during the Russian aggression against Afghanistan 30 years ago.
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