This just in from Afghanistan July 17, 2006
Posted by Evil Bender in Middle East, News and politics.trackback
The Taliban–who we supposedly vanquished years ago–have taken a town in Southern Afghanistan. Meanwhile, violence continues around the country, which seems to be growing less stable all the time, perhaps because our troops which forced out the Taliban are now largely committed to an unwinnable war in Iraq. The only reason this isn’t a huge story is that the violence in Iraq and the Israeli/Lebanese border is so much more striking.
We’ve failed to defeat the enemies we knew about, enemies who had supported an attack on American soil, and we’ve instead conquored and occupied another country and supported unacceptable foreign policy throughout the region. Bush’s foreign policy is so completely a failure that the one thing he got right: ending a violent regime that was a threat to America, is going wrong again. The Taliban are still there, and now they have the company of a lot more pissed off people. On every military front, we are failing, and blame rests with the president who put us in a position where failure was the only option.
Brother, you said a mouthful. Just imagine if we sent only 50,000 troops into Afghanistan, and spent only 100 billion dollars there to improve lives and make the place much better to live in, built roads, schools, hospitals, etc, and made it a model of democracy, and never gave Iraq a second thought. How much better would the world be today? Just something to think about.