Monday, September 10, 2012
Afghanistan No - Egypt Yes
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Vali Nasr, currently a dean of international studies at John Hopkins University and formerly a senior US intelligence advisor, and expert in Afghanistan and the Taliban, gave an interview today on CNN.
His position is that the current rise in terrorist attacks by suicide bombers and the infiltration into and attacks on US and allied installations makes it clear that the Afghan military are not capable of either defeating the Taliban and their al-Qaida associates or of protecting the Afghan population from them.
This only serves to emphasize what I and others have been writing -- America should not have gone into Afghanistan on a nation building task or, once there, wasted time trying to work with an Afghan government as corrupt as any on earth.
Now, instead of leaving, heads high, the US and its allies are creeping out, leaving behind no sense of accomplishment and no hope for the Afghan people, who will gradually return to inhumaine and cruel Taliban rule.
There is not much more to be said about Afghanistan.
But, I would like to ask the US government to step up its efforts to make a real friend and ally of Egyptian President Morsi. It could be America's last chance in the new Middle East.
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ReplyDeleteThere is one thing more to say about Afghanistan. From day one there our presents has been misunderstood and unobtainable. We don't do nation building very well and we don't understand people living in the world they see that's 4000 years old. We have again given another nation some our best in our sons, daughters, foreign service professionals, intelligence specialists, both dead, wounded and disfigured.
As we missed an opportunity immediately following 9/11 to show our deterrent to the Taliban and al-Qaida and the rest of the murderous terrorists that represent themselves to be the spokespersons for all of those followers of Mohamed, we now have missed an opportunity in Afghanistan.
I hope we do find someplace in the Middle East to show our principals and honest desire to Liberate the Oppressed people that are now or soon to be living without hope under the rule of the Taliban and al-Qaida.
"All that is necessary for evil to thrive is for good men (and women) to do nothing" ( lose quote, excuse me) - Edmund Burke
Boy are we doing NOTHING as fast as we can, aren't we
"There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited" - Sun Tzu
ReplyDeleteAfghanistan nor Russia benefited from their 10 year war. Afghanistan and the US will not benefit at all from their 8 year war. So who is the real loser in this 18 year war that has been waged in Afghanistan? AFGHANISTAN!
There is NO country left who would rush into Afghanistan in order to "save it" again. Afghanistan is now on it's own with the Islamist terrorists as their leaders. The 21st century will pass into history and Afghanistan will be the same then (or worst) as it is today.
But in reality it's what the citizens of Afghanistan want for their future, their children future, their unborn grandchildren future, and so on
How could anyone want to live under the Taliban rule???
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