The NATO summit in Chicago, continues to show the inept leadership in action in relation to the Afghanistan fiasco known as Operation: USELESS DIRT.
Our military and political leaders do not understand the dynamics. Unless Pakistan was to be all on-board, the effort has no hope of producing a stable Afghanistan government. And even that possibility is slim. Which with less hope comes the impossibility of having a stable central government in a region that has no concept or zero respect for such an organisation.
Warlords and tribal law trump everything.
The U.S. House just passed an outrageous defense budget. Hopefully it will get shot to pieces. It has extra spending on faulty weapons systems and around $100B on war spending. For a war that has no hope of being won. Especially with our Pakistan supply-chain making a mockery of the whole campaign.
The corruption in Pakistan and Afghanistan is rife.
They can't help it. That is the way they are.
That is the way we should leave them.
Sooner, rather than later.
Continue to wave your taxpayer dollars good-bye.
For no gain.
2 comments:
Agreed. The brass will try to spin it positive all day, but in a culture where the word 'government' means 'corruption', we can either stay long enough to change the whole culture (generations) or cut our losses early.
The flaw was in the creep mission, to involve routing and cleansing Afghanistan of Taliban control and then on to apparently establish permanent/long-term US bases in-country.
While noble and well-intended the vision to see the dissolution of the T-ban faction into irrelevance, it would require a simply unsustainable, full-blown and indefinite military occupation if going the military-solution route. Just wasn't a well calculated or competent strategic plan.
The original plan would have been far more successful, and of course far less costly, if the mission had only declared to eliminate illegal AQ training bases and to employ diplomacy and spec ops as needed to arrest/neutralize OBL. As bonus accomplishment, instead of glorifying and empowering the North Alliance as was done initially, the advantage should have been exploited by international community to demand (and via incentive) both Taliban and non-Tban elements to once and for all quit the civil war and begin process of new civilization and co-existence within country.
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