United States made talibans powerful when they were interested to do that. US let talibans do whatever they wanted (also genocide)in Afghanistan, also giving them money and weapons because they had to reach their goal to defeat Russians. After this target was reached they didn't care of what happened in Afghanistan. Then september 11 happened and something changed. Talibans turned from useful ally into enemy and went back to Afghanistan to fight agains who struck down Twin Towers.
And now many US politicians think and say that "war in Afghanistan is an Afghan issue, they should solve their problem by their own". Essentially now they want to get rid of afghan problems in spite of all they produced there. I'd like to ask to them " What was one of the main cause of what is happening in Afghanistan and of what afghan people is still suffering?"
What all that does mean? Maybe the only thing in what US was never interested is Afghanistan and safety and well-being of afghan people. When they reached their own goal, mission is accomplished. Destiny of Afghan people is neglectable.
In spite of all I always hope something can still change...
Your time would have been better spent at the basketball game. Hadley was part of the Bush administration and is not really going to be very forthright about it's criminal behaviour. Just because the US was not the victim of a terrorist attack is not proof of a successful "war". Spain and Britain, among others, were attacked.
Iraq is far from a success story. A country and a people who had nothing to do with 9/11 attack were destroyed and today are a country in shambles.
The real reason for attacking that country was to control it's oil. Hopefully, the Iraqi government will deny them this prize.
The problem with Afghanistan is not the Taliban but the corrupt government dominated by warlords, who should be barred from public office and brought to justice for their war crimes. If it was a good government, bringing real services to the people without corruption support for the Taliban would melt away.
I hope the efforts of NATO troops to offer some security and support for reconstruction will make a real contribution.
The US seems determined to go to war with the Pashtun people in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The war expands!
The idea that the United States has accomplished all it needs to in Afghanistan is shallow and dangerous. Afghanistan should receive military support true; but it also strongly needs help with political, and economic development.
If we abandon Afghanistan again, chaos will follow, both in Afghanistan and in Pakistan. This would not be good.
I do not expect this to happen, no matter how much the Left and the media want us to fail there. I have heard a Republican Congressman, who supports Afghanistan say at least there Obama is committed to resist Al Qaeda and the Taliban. And I have read that Obama supports 'civil society' in Afghanistan. This is a kind of code for strengthening civil institutions. This is good.
This is as it should be. We actually owe Afghanistan a lot. They were critical to winning the Cold War. We fought a successful war against Al Qaeda there with a large amount of Afghan support. Now we owe to the Afghans and ourselves to make the effort to win the peace.
No one mentions it much, but the increased effort in Afghanistan may involve going after the source of 90% of the worlds opium. The Taliban is so deeply invested in the drug trade that going after one should involve going after the other.
There are many difficulties in Afghanistan, drugs, corruption, war lords. However, we have our best leaders there now and a given commitment to 'civil society'. Our best course is to stay and help our allies the Afghans. May it be so.
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