President Obama said: "If I did not think that the security of the United States and the safety of the American people were at stake in Afghanistan, I would gladly order every one of our troops home tomorrow, this is no idle danger, no hypothetical threat."
"After eight years, some of those years in which we did not have I think either the resources or the strategy to get the job done; it is my intention to finish the job."
We know the hole that he finds his administration in is not of his making.
But does he need to dig deeper?
The motivation for this war, so we are told is that if we don’t stop the terrorists in their mountain hide outs, then they will find us on our very own streets, well that reason does not hold any conviction, but excuses before that was to liberate the woman from the Taliban, to allow girls to go to school, we would liberate the Afghan women and offer them the rights to live their lives in accordance with western standards and that the laws of the evil Taliban that was imposed on them would disappear, there’s been too many excuses for this war.
Barak Obama now tell us that the status quo is not sustainable, he is now going to continue to support a corrupt Afghanistan government, led by drug traffickers who support the corrupt Karzai government and then he’s going to try to establish a non-narcotic agriculture, so that he can finish the job, his chance of success by going down that road is nil.
He now promise’s to start removing soldiers from Afghanistan in July 2011, but didn’t say how long that withdrawal was going to take, and that’s simply because he doesn’t know how long it’s going to take.
And in the meantime the United States government alone (without the cost to the NATO countries) is spending over three billion dollars a month on this war, on a war that no one can emerge from and say they have succeeded in their aims,
We should not continue with this open ended mission in the belief that we can change the politics of the Afghan people.
The Soviet Union with its massive fire power could not bring these people to heel, every army that attempted to do so was defeated, no matter what resources are poured into Afghanistan to support NATO it will never be sufficient, we are now making things worse, and prolonging the process of destruction and mayhem, and more men woman and children will be slaughtered in a war that no one can give a truthful reason for.
The Taliban and Al-Qaeda will just wait, they have been at war for about 30 years, another 18 months isn't going to phase them,they can do that standing on their heads, they have time to spare, they know that eventually NATO will withdraw its forces; they know how to wait us out.
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more lives, but the main cause of all problems in Afghanistan is an ideology.
The ideology of Islam.
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