Friday, March 27, 2009
You know you made a big mistake
When one of the Kagan's, devout followers of the God of Wrong, is enthusiastic about your Afghan policy. Robert Kagan wrote in the WaPo:
Hats off to President Obama for making a gutsy and correct decision on Afghanistan. With many of his supporters, and some of his own advisers, calling either for a rapid exit or a “minimal” counterterrorist strategy in Afghanistan, the president announced today that he will instead expand and deepen the American commitment. He clearly believes that an effective counterterrorism approach requires an effective counterinsurgency strategy, aimed not only at killing bad guys but at strengthening Afghan civil society and governing structures, providing the necessary security to the population so that it can resist pressures from the Taliban, and significantly increasing the much-derided “nation-building” element of the strategy. The United States, he argues, has to help the Afghan people fulfill “the promise of a better future,” by rooting out government corruption, helping the elected government provide basic services, fighting the narcotics trade, and, in general, advancing “security, opportunity, and justice.” This is the opposite of a “minimal” approach.Pour in the money, guns and someone else's sons, we will tame these savages in no time. Someone should remind Obama that the Kagan politics may be of the Right, but their ideas have never been right yet.
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