He’s the man who has to get the job done on the southern Afghanistan battlefront, described by top U.S. commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the main effort.
He did admit the task at hand is “…hard, no doubt about it,” but still, he was confident, even more forward-leaning than his bosses President Obama and McChrystal.
“I think you give the Taliban too much credit,” he told me.
He claims the U.S. and its allies can roll back the Taliban in short order because the militants lack grassroots support in the heartland.
“If we see somebody digging in an IED at the roadside he deserves to die,” Hodges told me, “and we’re going to kill him.”
