After a weekend that saw 12 servicemen killed in action in Afghanistan, and the top US commander, General McChrystal, questioning the Commander in Chief’s strategy, we are left with one simple question: When did Afghanistan become Iraq? It seems like not too long ago these were the headlines coming out of Afghanistan’s neighbor to the West. Now all hell has broken loose in Afghanistan, and over 8 years into the War, and 800 servicemen killed, we still don’t seem to have a clue.
If we are to learn anything from the Russians, it’s that a long military campaign in this mountainous wilderness is a lost cause. We must ask President Obama, what exactly is it that we hope to accomplish in Afghanistan, that we need to spill more troop’s blood over? We will have to stay in the country for the next 50 years, otherwise, 2 minutes after we leave, the Taliban will rear it’s ugly head again. The fundamental problem in Afghanistan is that it yet to reach the Western standard for “modernity.” You can’t convince people to accept democracy when they are still sheparding goats. It will take at least a generation to fix this and we can not expect a short term victory here, but a bloody slog.
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