PRESIDENT OBAMA, NOW’S THE TIME
No sooner is our President back from meetings with that crooked thug in Afghanistan and Karzai has twice publicly told the world the growing corruption inside his country has been caused by the west and the United States in particular. He has told us in no uncertain terms that he has had enough of American interference. This is after we have placed 100,000 troops into the country and in the process of spending $billions building an infrastructure so Afghans can enter the 16th Century with a grand hope in a few hundred years time the country may even become civilized.
Afghanistan has literally been in a state of civil war since Alexander the Great invaded the country way back in 330 BC. In the nineteenth century it became a buffer state between the imperial expansionism desires of the Russian and British Empires. Granted, I am sure the poppy seeds have been the biggest source revenue for a few hundred years, but opium is not what has kept Afghanistan at perpetual war with itself. The country is tribal and primitive and has been for thousands of years. Unlike India, which under British colonial rule was able to get 600 “castes” to tolerate one another, Afghans for a couple of millenniums have been fighting amongst themselves in the mountains over nothing but a wish to be at war.
Russia’s, when it was the Soviet Union, last effort to expand its empire was to invade Afghanistan and within ten years the war became its Waterloo. Eleven years later in 1989 after suffering the embarrassment of retreating with its tail between its legs, the Soviet Union only took two more years to completely collapse. Many historians put it down to the toll of such a worthless war together with unpopularity back home of its decision to go into battle in the first place. If Iraq was un-winnable, then there is no hope with Afghanistan. President Karzai is just like all his predecessors; he is an Afghan war lord. He is as slippery as an eel, a born liar and Baby Doc Duvalier was a schoolboy in shorts when it comes to Karzai’s expertise in corruption.
So with that as a background to help you Mr President, my advice is get out of Afghanistan now. Like Iraq which is heading down the path of internal collapse and into anarchy as we pull our troops out, nothing useful will be gained “staying the course” in that hell hole of a country. Karzai has told you twice in three days, you are not his friend and that is after the welcome mat coming out just a few days earlier. He has unequivocally told you he wants America out. President Obama, he has presented you with a great opportunity here. Grab it with open arms and get our boys and girls back home on the next flight out of Kabul! I don’t know who is worse, the Taliban or tribal war lords. I don’t really care. In fact I would go so far as to say they all deserve one another. They are far happier beating the shit out of one another than becoming civilized.
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