Webb Says Afghanistan is Beset With Logistical Woe

webmuggshot.jpgVirginia U.S. Senator James Webb told the monthly breakfast meeting of the Northern Virginia Democratic Business Council in Falls Church last Friday that there’s no way the U.S. can build a stable, pro-western nation in Afghanistan, and that if more U.S. troops are sent in there, it should only be with a clear and realistic notion of “what we want to accomplish” and “how it ends.”

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Webb Says Afghanistan is Beset With Logistical Woe

Webb Says Afghanistan is Beset With Logistical Woe

Virginia U.S. Senator James Webb told the monthly breakfast meeting of the Northern Virginia Democratic Business Council in Falls Church…

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