Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Mistakes in Aghanistan

I see the President wants to increase troop strength and aid to Hamid Karzai's government and train more troops. It ain't gonna work. Didn't work in Vietnam, didn't work in Iraq and won't work in Afghanistan. In forming the new Afghan government we bypassed leaders of the resistance against the Soviets, and heroes to the Afghani people and selected an expatriate, who never shed a drop of blood or sweat or his nation's independence. Not a winner of hearts and minds. The Afghans see us no diferent than the Soviets, we are occupiers. Generals, incluing Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan,the early Persian empire, the brits and the Russians all lost in Afghanistan. What makes us any different. Afghanistan is a tribal nation that thinks in parts, not the whole. Its Pashtuns,Tajiks.Uzbeks,Hazara,Beluchis and many more that matter. Islam matters and the Mullahs have issued Fatwa for war on America. Afghanistan has been usually rules by Pashtuns,and this time won't be diferent. They'll fight us in the mountains and the deserts and like with the Russians, they will prevail. Afterwards,unity of purpose lost, the tribes and actions will descen on each other like locusts until a strongman takes charge. Such is Afghanistan.

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