The Solution in Afghanistan is not working at this very moment. The policy of search and destroy, has only been effective in adding more recruits tothe Taliban, resulted in no reconstruction in the South of the country and the killing of valuable teachers, village leaders and others who support the American and Nato backed government, and finally the rise in poppy production.
And then the States has the nerve to blame the local governments for poppy production skyrocketing when it should have been once of their policies in eradicating the drug and providing the Afghan government enough resources to help the civilians who farm this.
In 2003, the NATO and U.S governments said that the Taliban had a few hundred fighters at the most, after many campaigns over the last few years, thousands of Taliban have supposedly been killed but the Taliban still have large number of forces and strike at civilians daily.
So either the U.S underlooked the taliban in "western-arrogance" and is now paying the price for it with its blood, with Canadian blood and british blood, or they killed less Taliban in these "successful" campaigns and may have killed a bunch of civilians and claimed them as Taliban.
And finally, Lewis Mackenzie in a CTV interview basically stated that the support of the Afghanistan mission was to support a pipeline, and then as almost a sidethought he said "and to help the afghan people". So there is a communication issue with NATO and the Americans in what their objectives are and what they have seriously done in Afghanistan in the past five years.
To conclude, we can see this in hindsight. However, we can't let the Taliban back into power even with all the bungling actions of NATO and America. So what should we do.
First, provide resources to the Afghan government and directly to the Afghan farmers who grow the poppies. Send in a task force or any kind of force that deals directly with the poppy issue alongside an Afghani Department.
Second, create real construction in the south, and in the rest of the country. Schools, hospitals, roads, buildings. why should people still be living in Afghanistan in bombed out buildings in kabul if it is so peaceful and wonderful.
Thirdly, have a third force that will deal with renege Taliban, Al-Qaida and others. If necessary. And finally negotiate with the Taliban who want to surrender and go back to their homes because this is not going to be a military victory because if Western armies have never defeated Afghanistan in its history, why would this one?
And then the States has the nerve to blame the local governments for poppy production skyrocketing when it should have been once of their policies in eradicating the drug and providing the Afghan government enough resources to help the civilians who farm this.
In 2003, the NATO and U.S governments said that the Taliban had a few hundred fighters at the most, after many campaigns over the last few years, thousands of Taliban have supposedly been killed but the Taliban still have large number of forces and strike at civilians daily.
So either the U.S underlooked the taliban in "western-arrogance" and is now paying the price for it with its blood, with Canadian blood and british blood, or they killed less Taliban in these "successful" campaigns and may have killed a bunch of civilians and claimed them as Taliban.
And finally, Lewis Mackenzie in a CTV interview basically stated that the support of the Afghanistan mission was to support a pipeline, and then as almost a sidethought he said "and to help the afghan people". So there is a communication issue with NATO and the Americans in what their objectives are and what they have seriously done in Afghanistan in the past five years.
To conclude, we can see this in hindsight. However, we can't let the Taliban back into power even with all the bungling actions of NATO and America. So what should we do.
First, provide resources to the Afghan government and directly to the Afghan farmers who grow the poppies. Send in a task force or any kind of force that deals directly with the poppy issue alongside an Afghani Department.
Second, create real construction in the south, and in the rest of the country. Schools, hospitals, roads, buildings. why should people still be living in Afghanistan in bombed out buildings in kabul if it is so peaceful and wonderful.
Thirdly, have a third force that will deal with renege Taliban, Al-Qaida and others. If necessary. And finally negotiate with the Taliban who want to surrender and go back to their homes because this is not going to be a military victory because if Western armies have never defeated Afghanistan in its history, why would this one?
