Fox News: Reports on the statement by General Petraeus that results in Afghanistan will be slower that the quick results in Iraq. The USA could be in Afghanistan for fifty years and the result will be the same folks, Afghanistan is just one of those places that if your Western power you run the other way. The terrain and the people do not fit some Western model of state, even the British Empire learned that lesson the hard way, thousands of deaths in the 19th Century. This is my prediction for Afghanistan, at the end of the day, the West under leadership of the USA will pick a strong man and hope he can keep power in Kabul. Or the Obama Administration will do a deal with the Taliban as long as they keep Al Qaeda out of Afghanistan and don't support the Taliban of Afghanistan.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Afghanistan is not Iraq - General Petraeus
Fox News: Reports on the statement by General Petraeus that results in Afghanistan will be slower that the quick results in Iraq. The USA could be in Afghanistan for fifty years and the result will be the same folks, Afghanistan is just one of those places that if your Western power you run the other way. The terrain and the people do not fit some Western model of state, even the British Empire learned that lesson the hard way, thousands of deaths in the 19th Century. This is my prediction for Afghanistan, at the end of the day, the West under leadership of the USA will pick a strong man and hope he can keep power in Kabul. Or the Obama Administration will do a deal with the Taliban as long as they keep Al Qaeda out of Afghanistan and don't support the Taliban of Afghanistan.
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