Devil505
Banned
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2009
- Messages
- 3,512
- Reaction score
- 315
- Location
- Masschusetts
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Moderate
Re: 43 U.S. Troops Have Died in Afghanistan Since Gen. McChrystal Called for Reinforc
So why don't we just leave right now?
There is a strategy. But the mother strategy is to strengthen the Afghani government enough to fight this territorial battle without our intimate involvement.
I do not believe this is practical. This population is nowhere near what we dealt with in Iraq. The population in Iraq was educated. It is leaps and bounds ahead in regards to social habits. It is true that historical tribal identity haunts them (and will continue to do so), but clans divide the population in Afghanistan. And they are extremely corrupt. My point is that we have to stop thinking that we can "nation build" everywhere and with any society.
Our critics have been entirely stupid about these matters. They declared that Iraq's elections would be failures. They declared Iraq a civil war. They declared that Iraq was hopeless. And they declared Iraq another "Vietnam." They were always wrong, yet still ran their mouths as if they understood military matters and this region. They also go ahead and declare Afghanistan another "Vietnam," but they can't even get this default response to every conflict correct. In Vietnam, we supported an ever more corrupt government against a communist enemy. In the mean time, the Vietnamese were stuck between a government who cared less about them and the warring sides (American & Vietcong) that punished them for their allegiances. Where Afghanistan differs is that we aren't going to be run out of Afghanistan as the Afghani government crumbles. In the end, a corrupt Afghani government will limp along and deal with the festering Tali-Ban problem. But what we have to accept is that whatever this Afghani govenment does will be blamed on us. Same old story of the Middle East. Our critics are fond of pointing out today's enemies and how we "helped" to create them, but are to stupid to see that we are doing it right now.
So why don't we just leave right now?