I read a beautiful report, by Anna Badkhen yesterday, on how cities and villages, one after another in falling to the Talibans again. The Afghan police are not even there to fight, and the NATO forces are so stretched across the World, and battle weary, that they are usually in their barracks, or looking the other side.
With this development, however, USA and the free world in general, draws one step closer to the same catastrophe the we faced almost 15 years back, when Talibans took over Afghanistan. Soon, it will be a personal fiefdom, of soem people with a perverted sense of justice and law, a medieval hand of tyrrany would soon come down on the women and children mostly, who will be again reduced to the category of slaves.
But more appaling were the comments in the article. USA has no right to stay, everyone should get the hell out, ten years couldn’t solve Afghanistan etc…typical interminable left wing dross.
The fact that in this Afghanistan, women are not hanged on a lamppost, just cause they refused to wear a Burqa, itself makes this war worth fighting. Cause this war was not about oil, WMDs, or revenge for 9/11. It was about humanity, and saving the peaceful majority from a handful f maniacs. It was about freedom, and future safety, so that the region doesn’t become a breeding ground of people who wage a war on the whole world, in the name of their perverted interpretaion of a certain religion.
Ten years? If ten years were given solely to Afghanistan, it would have been a better place now. Iraq, Yemen, and now Libya, all ate up in between. Elections came and went. Misinformation or deliberate falsification of the brutality of the war tore into public opinion.
Afghanistan was not always a medieval fiefdom. I wrote about that before too. They were a liberal society, with women wearing skirts going to universities doing research. Till they were taken over by some fanatics. And the World changed.
This time, leaving Afghanistan would bring on worse. China is seeking entry in the zone, which is basically going to be the center point of the great game of power in this century. Pakistan is continuing its double game, and to be quite honest it is looking quite hopeless to try and fix Afghanistan without fixing Pakistan first. Sane voices are demanding a rethink on drawdown.
But sadly, politics these days are not about sanity and wisdom. Its more about appeasing public opinion. Regardless of whether it would be beneficial in the long run or not.
