It is just not us but them too who are raising their voices waiting to be heard for America and it’s allies to leave Afghanistan since some time now. The following I would like to share with you:
For the past nine years the US has known loosely where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida may be. So far, it has spent years, hundreds of billions, many American and allied lives, and a good piece of its reputation on an as yet unsuccessful effort to bring them down.
One of the most popular images of official incompetence these days is that of the person who does the same thing over and over again while each time expecting different results. President Barack Obama seems to be trapped in this illusion. He is facing the most compelling of political fears: If he were to stop the war in Afghanistan and a major terrorist attack were to occur in the United States, his critics will be quick to say it was his fault.
As of now, for nearly three decades the US has been variously devoted to bringing peace to Afghanistan. That has achieved little so far beyond returning the Afghan countryside to its drug producing overlords and permitting Afghanistan to supply 90% of the world's heroin. Yet it appears that the safest domestic political course for any but the boldest of American presidents is to continue this useless war.
However, the consequences of this war are mounting as the US shreds it alliance with Pakistan and goads the Pushtun people into defending themselves. The US simply does not have the military resources to deal with 50 million angry Pushtun people defending themselves at home in one of the remotest places on earth. The correct appreciation is to know not when we have lost but when we cannot win and back gracefully out of it.
According to the TIMES ONLINE, President Obama "has demanded that American defense chiefs review their strategy in Afghanistan before going ahead with a troop surge." In a recent meeting at the Pentagon he reportedly asked the Joint Chiefs and other defense officials "what is the endgame", and he did not like the answers he received. This question should have been asked much earlier and it certainly deserved to be asked before the US increases its already large human and financial investment in that campaign. It is most disturbing that good answers were not immediately forthcoming, but their absence is wholly in keeping with what many serious observers of the Afghan scene believe is the reality of the situation.
By:Terrell E. Arnold
http://www.rense.com/general85/why.htm
