A New Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
The new Afghanistan policy that President Obama unveiled at the White House today was pretty much all that supporters of the war effort could have asked for, and probably pretty similar to what a President McCain would have decided on.
Why are we in Afghanistan? Why are we trying to impose “democracy” on a nation that has little use for it?
How will we recognize “victory” there, should such a will-o’-the-wisp ever occur?
When did it become America’s imperialism to impose — at the cost of our blood and treasure — democracy on parts of the world that have demonstrated no desire for it whatsoever?
We destroyed the regime that helped protect and enable the terror gang that launched the 9/11 attack on us. That’s enough. Let the Afghans sort out their own problems in their own way, with the caveat that we will destroy any new regime there that enables in any way anti-American terror attacks on us.
As it is now, all we are doing is irritating and creating new Islamist movements against us. And since our only answer to such movements is to put our young men and women into the equivalent of walking police beats in live mine fields, we stand little or no chance of preventing those movements from eventually doing even more damage to us.
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