Op-Ed Columnist - Two Wrongs Make Another Fiasco - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Two Wrongs Make Another Fiasco - NYTimes.com: "Gen. David Petraeus stipulates that real counterinsurgency requires 20 to 25 troops for each thousand residents. That comes out, conservatively, to 640,000 troops for Afghanistan (population, 32 million). Some 535,000 American troops couldn’t achieve a successful counterinsurgency in South Vietnam, which had half Afghanistan’s population and just over a quarter of its land area."