Thursday, April 29, 2010

When We Understand That Slide, We'll Have Won The War


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Baffling: The PowerPoint slide shown to US commanders shows security, economic and political conditions in Afghanistan. The dark blue arrows represent Afghan National Security Forces with the enemy in red. Other arrows highlight corruption, tribal favouritism and drug trafficking.

'When We Understand That Slide, We'll Have Won The War:' US Generals Given Baffling PowerPoint Presentation To Try To Explain Afghanistan Mess -- The Daily Mail

Its coloured charts, graphs and bullet-points are supposed to make the most incomprehensible data crystal clear.

But even the sharpest military minds in American were left baffled by this PowerPoint slide, a mind-boggling attempt to explain the situation in Afghanistan.

'When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war,' General Stanley McChrystal, the US and NATO force commander, remarked wryly when confronted by the sprawling spaghetti diagram in a briefing.

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My Comment: Someone should do a power point presentation from the Taliban point of view. My prediction .... it will be simpler presentation and probably more effective.

1 comment:

Mark said...

yeah it goes like this:
"Wait"