Afghanistan's Conspiracies
"Yesterday's bombing in Kabul and Khost didn't aim to show Taliban's strength, indeed they served America. By those bombings they served the 2014 negative slogan. These bombings aimed to prolong the presence of the American forces in Afghanistan."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Afghanistan's president presides in his country as president only because of the presence of NATO troops, and latterly more specifically, American troops. The country's own military and its national police force are incapable on their own - without the financial support that garners them their uniforms, their training, and their weapons - of defending the country from the Taliban.
The people of Afghanistan, in particular the women and the children, have seen a dramatically marked improvement in their status thanks to the presence of foreign NGOs delivering services and humanitarian aid to the population. The insecure and incapable military and police are undergoing training through the auspices of NATO, by foreign Western and American military personnel.
The countries allied with NATO and the UN ISAF forces have sacrificed their own for the purpose of aiding Afghanistan. Those countries have also given unstintingly of their national treasuries to help bolster the Afghan economy, its government infrastructure, its military and its police. A hefty measure of that humanitarian aid funding has been co-opted by corrupt Afghan officials.
To say that Western nations, including the United States, are anxious to depart that benighted country is to speak large aspirations in minuscule terms. But there are other accusations levelled against the Americans who would like nothing better than to shake the dirt of Afghanistan from the boots of the troops and leave.
"Last night around 10 p.m." said Mr. Karzai portentously, "something horrible happened: A group of American militias had harassed a university student."
Who claimed he had been beaten, and whom Mr. Karzai had miraculously managed to have released from "the foreigners' prison." It is worth noting, yet again, that Afghan prisons are notorious for their torture techniques, causing NATO forces to abstain from turning over prisoners to those same Afghan authorities.
"We have fought too hard over the past 12 years, we have shed too much blood over the past 12 years, we have done too much to help the Afghan security forces grow over the past 12 years to ever think that violence or instability would be to our advantage", said U.S. General Joseph Dunford, in a masterly response at measured understatement.
Labels: Afghanistan, Conflict, Controversy, NATO, Societal Failures, Taliban, United States
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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