Tommy,
"FOX-demented American public"? Really?
You do know that there are over 300 million people in the united States,
right? The highest rated show on FOX News has an audience of less 4
million. How did the majority of Americans then become "FOX-demented"?
On 10/20/2010 4:51 PM, Tommy News wrote:
Bush Created A No-Win Situation in Afghanistan for Obama
In a recent CNN poll the amnesiac and FOX-demented American public
near-equated the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama
because of the false perception that Obama's policies are at root of
poor economic conditions at home and the deteriorating security
situation in Afghanistan.
Although economic woes seem more ascribable to Bush's trickle-up
policies - that is something for economists to argue. What is not
theoretical, however, is the clear correlation between the hellish
conditions in Afghanistan and the ruinous decisions of the Bush
administration that have now rendered the war unwinnable. The Afghans
do not hate our freedom; they hate our policies - currently Obama's,
but especially Bush's.
Obama's policies are certainly worthy of objurgation, especially his
grievous misjudgment at the end of 2009 to cast an additional 30,000
troops into the Afghan abyss in support of a failing counterinsurgency
(COIN) strategy. Obama may have pushed our trips into the hole, but
let us not forget the culprit who excavated it.
Because why is said strategy designed to fail in the first place? COIN
is largely based on winning the hearts and minds of the local
populace, which became an impossible endeavor once Bush and his
henchmen inserted Hamid Karzai as President of Afghanistan against the
will of the Afghan people. Bush crony Zalmay Khalilizad and the CIA
orchestrated one of the most tragic acts in U.S. foreign policy
history when they overrode the voice of three quarters of the
delegates at the 2002 loya jirga in Afghanistan by stiff-arming aside
the people's choice - King Zahir Shah - to illegitimately install
their Unocal pal as head of state.
Accompanying this historical gaffe was affording a level of
centralization to be written into the Afghan constitution that
practically guaranteed Afghanistan would become one of the most
corrupted states on earth. "Our man in Kabul" has alienated the Afghan
people through an unprecedented consolidation of power and money to be
forever retained through impressive election-rigging operations.
The province of Kandahar is purportedly the most critical to winning
the war, considering it's the birthplace and spiritual cradle of the
Taliban. Yet, thanks to the Bush brain trust's brilliance, it is de
facto controlled by President Karzai's corrupt brother Ahmed Wali
Karzai, who runs the region like a kingpin. He has consolidated power
in the area and has used CIA resources to knock off rival tribal
elders and is infamous for making profit off the opium trade. Ahmed
Wali is to this day single-handedly fueling the insurgency in the
South.
Then, the damage caused by the decision to invade Iraq cannot be
understated as troops, funds, and resources were diverted from
Afghanistan which enabled the rise of warlords, allowed the rearming
and resurgence of the Taliban and the delay of critical reconstruction
projects, as Rummy and the DOD took over "state-building". Instead of
stabilizing Afghanistan the U.S. spent $1 billion funding mujahideen
warlords and other maligned actors to "secure the peace", and America
abandoned the country just like they did after the Soviets withdrew.
The U.S. mission in post-9/11 Afghanistan for years primarily
consisted of hunting al Qaeda leaders, especially Osama bin Laden, at
the expense of rebuilding Afghanistan. But even this job was made more
difficult by Dick Cheney allowing Pakistan President Musharraf to
airlift up to one thousand ISI, Taliban and al Qaeda personnel out of
Afghanistan at the tail end of the war, according to Ahmed Rashid in
Descent Into Chaos:
The request was made by Musharraf to Bush, but Cheney took charge -- a
token of who was handling Musharraf at the time. The approval was not
shared with anyone at State, including Colin Powell, until well after
the event. Musharraf said Pakistan needed to save its dignity and its
valued people.
Two planes were involved, which made several sorties a night over
several nights. They took off from air bases in Chitral and Gilgit in
Pakistan's northern areas, and landed in Kunduz, where the evacuees
were waiting on the tarmac.
Certainly hundreds and perhaps as many as one thousand people escaped.
Hundreds of ISI officers, Taliban commanders, and foot soldiers
belonging to the IMU and al Qaeda personnel boarded the planes.
What was sold as a minor extraction turned into a major air bridge.
The frustrated U.S. SOF who watched it from the surrounding high
ground dubbed it "Operation Evil Airlift."
The Bush administration continued to support Musharraf in light of the
fact Pakistan's military policy was to protect the Taliban while
handing over al Qaeda members to the U.S. Instead of pressuring
Musharraf, the U.S. increased resources to the ISI and Pakistani army
and in 2002 granted Pakistan a non-NATO ally with $700 million in aid
and $364 earmarked for military.
In 2005, NATO found that the U.S. had not monitored Pakistan support
for Taliban activity in the southern provinces of Helmand, Kandahar,
Uruzgant, and Nimroz. From 2001-2006 not a single Taliban leader was
handed over by Pakistan to the United States. As a result, the Taliban
and its affiliates have enjoyed near-intractable sanctuary in
Pakistan's Northwest frontiers.
Thus, Obama has been left to choose between pulling troops which would
lead to the fall of the Karzai regime and would allow Afghanistan to
spiral further into civil war, or continue to support a government
that the Afghan people now despise more than the Taliban.
No wonder they hate us.
Michael Hughes writes similar articles as the Afghanistan Headlines
Examiner and the Geopolitics Examiner for Examiner.com.
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hughes/bush-created-a-no-win-sit_b_769278.html
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