Saturday, February 14, 2009

But what I really want to know....

McClatchy examines our course of action in Afghanistan and wonders if we are making the same mistakes the Soviets did when they were there.
Some Afghan experts are worried that the United States and its NATO allies are making some of the same mistakes that helped the Taliban's forerunners defeat the Soviet Union after a decade-long occupation that bled the Kremlin treasury, demoralized Moscow's military and contributed to the Soviet Union's collapse.

Among the mistakes, these experts said, are relying too heavily on military force, inflicting too many civilian casualties, concentrating too much power in Kabul and tolerating pervasive government corruption.

Violence and ethnic tensions will worsen, they warned, absent a rapid correction in U.S.-led strategy that improves coordination between military operations and stepped up reconstruction, job-training and local good governance programs.

"We have not justified democracy. We have not justified human rights. We have not justified liberalism," said Azziz Royesh, a political activist, educator and former anti- Soviet guerrilla. "Afghans don't like the Taliban. But we haven't shown them a better option."
But what I really want to know is why, whether we are in VietNam, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Guatamala, Haiti or any other third world coutry, we always end up supporting the the criminal elements whose only goal is to steal as much as they can?

// posted by montag @ 4:39 PM
Comments:
Because every 5 - 10 years we should be going into Washinton with torches, pitchforks and tar and feathers but, we don't.

Fred Flintstone
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6:33 AM
 

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