Max B. Sawicky wrote:
The major objective I believe is to prevent further attacks by Al
Queda.
No, that's the major pretext.
Another priority is to keep Pakistan at no worse than a low boil.
Generally, it is advisable to turn down the heat to keep things
simmering. But sending drones over Pakistan that kill innocent civilians
is turning up the heat, isn't it?
The purpose of U.S. & allied forces in Afgh is to keep AQ tied down
in Afgh and Pakistan, indefinitely, to minimize their ability to
conduct operations elsewhere.
What relationship did the 9/11 conspiracy have to the relationship of
forces in Afghanistan? Less than zero. The funding came from Saudi
Arabia and the operations headquarters were in Germany.
It's not a campaign of conquest; there is nothing there worth taking.
(The pipeline stuff was always a pipe-dream.) The emerging US client-
cum-superpower in the region IMO is India. Who needs Afghanistan.
Not everything can be reduced to dollars and cents. The US is committed
to defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan because it prefers
client states. By demonstrating its power over political Islam in this
area, it hopes to sap its morale in other locales where the economic
stakes are higher (Middle East, Indonesia, etc.) This in effect is the
same domino theory that enabled Vietnam. Replace Communism with radical
Islam and you end up with the same wretched foreign policy.
There are all sorts of ways to criticize this in its own terms.
For effective criticism, we should be aiming at the correct target.
What do you mean by "we", white man.
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