“Do you have a suggestion?”
Yes, we fundamentally re-examine the entire purpose of the war in Afghanistan, unless you simply propose another year, five years, ten years, twenty years whatever, of endless “victories” like this one without any prospect of actually winning the damned war.
Why are the Allies in Afghanistan? To free that country from fundamentalist Islam, to liberate the women and homosexuals? Good luck with that! And why stick with Afghanistan if that’s your aim, why not hit our dear friends Saudi Arabia if that’s the purpose of the war? By the way don’t hold your breath waiting for Germaine Greer or Rosie O’Donnell to lend you their support.
No, that’s not why we’re in Afghanistan, we are there because the Taliban government had allowed the Al Qaeda terrorist network to plan their attacks on the US from there. Well my guess is that the Taliban have learned their lesson and are sorry they ever got mixed up in that deal.
So my suggestion is tell the Taliban they can have the place if they can beat Karzai (we will continue to arm him if we like but no more US and Nato boots on the ground). It’s no skin off our nose who rules the godforsaken place.
If, however, and it’s a bloody BIG if, if for one split second there is even the slightest hint of the Taliban getting involved with terrorists or allowing terrorists to operate in their territory then Kabul and Kandahar will be reduced to a smouldering nuclear wasteland in an afternoon. My guess is you’d never hear a cheep from Afghanistan ever again and the natives can go back to hating each other like they’ve been doing for the past couple of millennia before we got involved.
One other thing, you might loathe the insurgents, you might hate their religion but could we at least concede that if foreign troops from Asia were occupying the US there might be more than a few American patriots who were prepared to fight the foreigners in exactly the same way the Taliban are?
Thank you, I will think on it.
Ken
Given the circumstances I think we should use a small tactical nuke on Marjah on our way out. Just to make sure they get the point.
Blah, blah, blah.
Who’s this ‘we’ bull? You are not there. You mean, ‘them’. Those other Americans, and others.
So long as they fight, and soon to be others, what do you care about the fight. Really. Answer, nothign.
So, it is for you, now in all physically reality, about money. It isn’t much. Not much more than peace time.
I wouldn’t worry about it. At all. Think of it as a large, free fire exercise. Practice.
So long as others, as equally as smart as you, desire, actually work hard at it, and to be there, freely and knowingly, often twice or three times, that doesn’t concern you one bit. No one asked you. You are not wanted or required. Your opinion is worthless.