The War is horror – we don’t need WikiLeaks to tell us this. To all who will be shedding tears over the newly released documents: let’s remember why we are in a war in Afghanistan. Posted on 07/26/2010 1:21:33 PM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
The War is horror – we don’t need WikiLeaks to tell us this. To all who will be shedding tears over the newly released documents: let’s remember why we are in a war in Afghanistan.
After the 9/11 attacks on the US president Bush demanded that the Taliban give the US Usama bin Laden and the other Al-Qaida leaders to be prosecuted in court for what they have done. The Taliban refused and they continue to harbor and support the terrorists even today.
The US has the right to defend the national security. The Taliban have the right to chose to stay side by side with Al-Qaida and fight US till death. Or they can choose to give away Bin Laden and friends and get it over with.
The major problem with the Taliban fighters and the mujahedeen is that for 30 years all they have done is fight. And that lifestyle has been quite profitable for them. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained it recently in an interview for FOX News:
We have a huge trust deficit. In part because, to be fair we have helped create the problem we are now fighting. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan we had this brilliant idea that we are going to come to Pakistan and create a force of mujaheddin, equip them with Stinger missile and everything else to go after the Soviets inside the Afghanistan.So America stopped pouring big money in Pakistan. And the trained warriors decided to turn into terrorists and blackmail America – for money.And we were successful – the Soviets left the Afghanistan. And we said: Great! Good Bye!
Pakistani government grew accustomed to receiving billions of dollars in support. They are totally dependent on those billions – the same way a welfare recipients becomes dependent on the monthly check.
So with one hand Pakistani bureaucrats take the US money and with the other hand the terrorist continue to operate in the safe heavens across Afghan-Pakistani border for decades now.
The USA should develop a strategy of weaning out of welfare all those states. Until Pakistan learns how to live without the US money – the threat of terrorism will always be there. Until Middle East is weaned out of USAID there will be no peace there. The terror is the blackmailing tool for many third world governments to get easy money. Until US is feeding bureaucrats to fight terrorism – there will always be terrorism – because without terrorism bureaucrats in UN and governments all over the world will lose their funding.
The US has to clean up their pay-roll of foreign bureaucrats. We have ridiculous spending that keeps conflicts, wars and terror alive.
So with one hand Pakistani bureaucrats take the US money and with the other hand the terrorist continue to operate in the safe heavens across Afghan-Pakistani border for decades now.
We should have teams hunting down the people that did this.
We probably do - the Russian media reports the WikiLeaks documents prove that. Vesti.Ru said the documents reveal something called Commandos-373 - that according to the Russians are special forces hunting the top 70 taliban. Good for us!
Oh! I bet you are not the only one who wants to get a grip of that WickedLeaks :)
Still, this was an attack on our nation and all the perps need to pay the price. Whoever and wherever.
The war is here.
The war was lost when we failed to declare war on Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
Yes Jim. It is inside the gates. The people that participated in the disclosure should suffer greatly. And it goes far beyond this issue.
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