I fed up of being told:
1] But but think of the women.
2] But but think of the children
3] But but the Taliban.
4] But but the Warren Terra.
Strawman arguments each and every one.
If you haven't seen the report to the House
Warlord, Inc.: Extortion and Corruption Along the U.S. Supply Chain in Afghanistan,
They fail however to come to the most logical solution.
First the tragicomedy with Gen McChrystal, and then his replacement with Patraeus has not changed one iota the farcical and bloody proceedings going on in Afghanistan.
We are in fact endeavoring to nation build whilst negating every step designed to do so, I suggest you read the whole report before you flame me.
We are wasting blood and money in a land that does not want us there, its time to leave.
Worried about the Taliban?
Stop paying them protection money.
Stop buying opium and heroin.
Al Qaeda left the area awhile back.
We have to do a better job in the international side to coordinate our aid, to get more accountability for what we spend in Afghanistan. But much of the corruption is fueled by money that has poured into that country over the last eight years. And it is corruption at every step along the way, not just in Kabul.
You know, when we are so dependent upon long supply lines, as in Afghanistan, where everything has to be imported, it’s much more difficult than it was in Iraq, where we had Kuwait as a staging ground to go into Iraq. You offload a ship in Karachi and by the time whatever it is – you know, muffins for our soldiers’ breakfasts or anti-IED equipment – gets to where we’re headed, it goes through a lot of hands. And one of the major sources of funding for the Taliban is the protection money.
– Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
December 3, 2009
Don't forget our own corrupt corporations with their nose in the trough and the promises of mineral wealth to spur our occupation on into a second decade.
Just one big protection racket all along the route.
Our longest war has resulted in us financing those who despise us the most.
Not only that we support one of the most corrupt governments in the world.
Its time to leave, and leave just as soon as we can pack up our shit and go.
The only ones that want us there are some misguided amongst us who think we can achieve anything, and turn Afghanistan into a mirror image of ourselves.
Its a delusion bordering on farce.
What some Afghan natives and analysts call the most dangerous part of the world has reached a critical juncture, "a tipping point". Per Guardian and New York Times reports, "President Hamid Karzai has lost faith in the US strategy in Afghanistan and is increasingly looking to Pakistan to end the insurgency."
Qaseem Fahim infamous warlord
Infamous warlord and vice-president of Afghanistan, Qaseem Fahim
Rest assured that this is wishful thinking on Mr. Karzai’s part; it is a pipedream. Pakistan may not even want to waste their time to contemplate. In fact, the window of opportunity has long gone when Mr. Karzai’s intimacy with Pakistan’s arch rival India, who allegedly supported the Northern Alliance for many years in Afghanistan, is still considered a threat in the minds of some top Pakistani government officials. In hindsight, Karzai’s own instability and insanity is now considered the greater threat.
We bear responsibility for this fiasco, but staying will solve nothing except:
"The rise in incidents involving improvised-explosive devices constitutes an alarming trend, with the first four months of 2010 recording a 94 percent increase compared to the same period in 2009," the report to the UN security council said.The report added suicide attacks involving more complex planning have doubled from last year to roughly two per month, which "demonstrates a growing capability of the local terrorist networks linked to Al-Qaeda".
We cannot achieve our goals, whatever they are now, and this has been an ever changing theme over the period of the occupation.