13 October 2008
We are helping the Taliban by continuing to fund the Iraq war and send more military to Iraq while the Tailban is getting a stranglehold in Afghanistan. The Karzia and the Pakistan governments have done very little to control the Taliban in the border areas of their countries. There is known to be high-level corruption in the Karzia government. Under pressure from the U.S., Karzai named a new interior minister on Saturday.
Afghanistan has a $4-billion-a-year opium trade with much corruption involved. A 50,000-strong international security force is seen as the weakest link in the battle against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. I don’t know diddly-squat about battle strategy but I think that U.S. combat troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan are no longer needed. What we need are a lot of small striker brigades to get at criminal groups like Taliban and Al Qaeda. Combat troops do not encourage confidence from civilian populations. Someone needs to be responsible for the rebuilding of the Afghanistan’s shattered school system and infrastructure.
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