Comments on: America’s Commitment to Afghanistan: Two Contrasting Viewpoints https://nationalsecurityforum.org/2012/10/10/americas-commitment-to-afghanistan-two-contrasting-viewpoints/ Forum for discussing national security issues. Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:04:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Viktor Frolov https://nationalsecurityforum.org/2012/10/10/americas-commitment-to-afghanistan-two-contrasting-viewpoints/#comment-29 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:27:48 +0000 https://nationalsecurityforum.org/?p=1215#comment-29 The US now repeat USSR’s mistake. When USSR invaded Afghanistan, everybody
thought that the war would end very fast and a new Kommunist country
would appear on the globe. But everything went the same way that is going
out now with the American troops.
Afghans consider each armed foreigner on the territory of Afganistan to be
enemy. No matter that he is helping you now – you are going to be enemy
since you are unlikely leave the country and leave your interests after
all is over.
What do we have now in Afghanistan? Taliban is not defeated. It is waiting for
American troops to leave. Offical government will fall down in a couple of years
after US army leaves Afganistan because this government consists out of different
tribes, clans and extreemly corrupted. It will not be able to resist to consolidated, united by religious idea (up to fanatism) and well

trained Taliban forces that will sacrifice their lives (and lives of any other person) to get back Afghanistan.
Of course Afganistan got a lot of improvment for the last ten years, but it also had
had a lot of improvment after USSR troops invaded it and helped to built infrastructure,
schools, hospitals etc., all, that was quickly destroyed after these troops left the country.

Each Afghan “citizen” used to checking his AK 47 each morning and checking his opium field-he does not care
much about anything else. All this is in his mentality and it is very deap there.
Very good Dr. Steve Hull’s saying: “It would take a truck load of miracles, trillions of dollars, and a generation more of commitment to

bring about the governance, economic and cultural change in Afghanistan ‘promised’ by American policy makers.”
He is fully correct. Are the States ready to sacrifice its prosperity, tens of thousands of lives of US citizens to get
a middle age country out of its dark ages?

The USA should not expect that Afghanistan will be thankfull for it (even if it happens). A lot of crimes made by
US soldgers, acceptence of Pakistany view on boarder line with Afghanistan, mistakes of American troops
bombing civilians – this will remember Afghans and all this makes a growing tension between coalition and Afghans.
Each Afgan can be enemy, even if heshe is very polite with you and vows to help and protect you. Simply because you are on his own

territory, in his country with weapon, control his life.

There are some forces, as usual in every war, that will also try to keep the troops in Afganistan as long as possible.
Drug produce grew many times after the US troops invaded in Afganistan. Afganistan has a lof to natural resourses.
And its territory is a pretty good base to have influence in the region, and to attack Iran if needed.
So this war is simply a geopolitical war. And Polititions, as usual, do not much care about lives of people,
even their own people.

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