Why am I not surprised? I saw it coming...
Taliban attacks on Kabul are further proof that the west's vision for Afghanistan was a fantasy
For months after the allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, there were no Taliban attacks in Kabul. Now, as the weekend's gun, rocket and suicide attacks demonstrate, they are frequent and fatally effective. This is one measure of the progress of the war, more than 10 years on. There are many others.
According to a devastating account from a senior US army officer, the Taliban now range freely across much of the country. US forces barely control the territory they can see from their highly fortified bases. Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis reports that the Afghan army, like its government, is neither competent nor trusted.
The war was supposed to end with the Taliban arriving as supplicants to the negotiating table once sufficiently "degraded" by allied attacks. That strategy has been turned on its head. If anyone is a supplicant it will be the allies, desperate to make a deal they can claim as some kind of limited "victory" before they pull out. But, if this weekend's events are any indicator, the Taliban don't seem very interested in talking.
Where did it go so wrong? With the lucidity of hindsight (for I was once an enthusiastic supporter of the war), it appears that a fatal mistake was made before the campaign even started. In Bonn, an international conference was convened to construct a political strategy to follow the inevitable military victory. A moderate Pashtun would lead a government comprising all factions and ethnicities – or at least those we approved of. This new dispensation was to be endorsed by the traditional loya jirga, or "democracy, Afghan-style", as some chose to call it. It sounded plausible and everyone in the "international community" signed on.
But the new Afghanistan was in fact a fantasy.
Please read the full article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/16/afghanistan-western-naivety-kabul-attacks
big failure, count losses and go home ... but wait who will run the drugs for wall street bankers if usa leaves ???
AntwortenLöschenand yet usa continues with their pipe dreams of world domination ...
Ah yes, drugs. Lest we forget.
AntwortenLöschenI just want to get out.
AntwortenLöschenOf course it was a fantasy; when you go around blowing up children or making them target practice from helicopters as they pick up firewood, you are going to ensure the end results is that more and more Afghans are going to hate your very existence on the face of the planet and do everything possible to blow you away.
AntwortenLöschenThe three of a democratic Afghanistan is still young and really fragile. It, young democratic Afghanistan, has had a lot of benefits for those afghans who for centuries have dreamed of not serving their masters and having only one opportunity to make a break through point in their life. One of those afghan is me. My father doesn't still believe that i have a job other than farming and/or full time serving some incompetent master. These progress have had its positive impacts among all ethnicities, tribes and indigenous people. Yet, I can for sure say its booming across countrysides especially among minorities. Think of the first boy and girl, from a valley with thousands of years human living history, who could pursue and enter higher education and think about the time when they graduate and their take-back to their valley.
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