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    Schieffer asked if Senator McCain could support a possible move to a hybrid strategy in Afghanistan, incorporating some elements of the counterterrorism strategy Vice President Joe Biden supports and General Stanley McChrystal's counterinsurgency strategy. "It may be a matter of semantics ... I don't know how you make them hybrid. There are elements of counterterrorism in counterinsurgency, but fundamentally, counterinsurgency will require the implementation of the strategy that General McChrystal has recommended, in my view. And the counterterrorism strategy - killing people and then returning to base - has been proven to be a very disastrous strategy in Iraq and in other places." © MMIX, CBS Interactive Inc. Full Article at CBS News
    It may be a matter of semantics ... I don't know how you make them hybrid. There are elements of counterterrorism in counterinsurgency, but fundamentally, counterinsurgency will require the implementation of the strategy that General McChrystal has recommended, in my view. And the counterterrorism strategy - killing people and then returning to base - has been proven to be a very disastrous strategy in Iraq and in other places.
    John McCain John McCain SOURCE: CBS News 1 month ago