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The trio of Pentagon correspondents covered Gen Stanley McChrystal's gung-ho testimony on Capitol Hill about his prospects in Afghanistan. ABC anchor Charles Gibson suggested to Martha Raddatz that the general sounded unusually confident: "Frankly I was surprised," she agreed. CBS' David Martin heard McChrystal list milestones in July 2010, then in December 2010, then in July 2011 to monitor "whether the surge was working."
CBS' Martin described the war one way: "What the Taliban want is to control Afghanistan. US troops can almost certainly prevent that." NBC's Jim Miklaszewski described a different mission altogether: "The United States can keep Afghanistan from once again becoming a safe haven for al-Qaeda." CBS covered the Kabul angle, with Terry McCarthy following the talks between President Hamid Karzai and Secretary Robert Gates. Karzai asked for five years to complete training his army--and for at least 15 years of US military aid to pay for it. "Many Afghans think that 18-month timetable is too short and fear that once again they may be abandoned to a civil war," CBS' McCarthy found.
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