Friday, March 16, 2012

Afghanistan's Karzai

How does Hamid Karzai have a right to demand more from the U.S.? Demand anything from the
the U.S. at this stage of affairs between our two countries?
We are in that country on vacations?
Either he has lawful, measured control of the situations attracting Al Queda stagings in Afghanistan, or he does not.
If he has no control of it, he has the responsibility for anything, good or bad, which happens
in Afghanistan.
We have funneled money and live human beings into his country for years, as defense, in spite
of the fact that the appearance of what we have to do there often masks our efforts as offensive.
Cut and run is not surgical. Cut and run offers only a little precision, and even less accuracy.
Cut an offending organic mass; clean the wound, bandage the compromised remains of the cutting. Then remediation has begun to happen with precision, and with accuracy. Each of these
things has a different, abiding importance.
Take instructions from the patient's friends and governing officials while the cutting is still an imminent occurrence; then perhaps you want to botch the necessity of the protections
you are attempting to put in place, to prevent an epidemic of the viral destruction you are
attempting stem, to destroy. Then, whatever disease has flourished to cause such severe remedies in the first place, will definitely have to be re-visited. We would hope to avoid another visit for the sake of our defense.
Karzai doesn't seem to have an appreciation for our committment of blood and treasure. He has
the attitude,' Keep it coming...on my terms.' Somehow, he hasn't accepted the unrelenting
answers to those demands which come to him in different words at different times.
The answers are essentially always going to be the same: 'Absolutely not. Don't re-word these requests. Don't repeat these requests. Requests such as these paint requestors as people admitting possibly increasing incompetence.'
One of these days, when someone says to an Afghan leader; 'Get it together', one of them will reply:"Ok."
On that day, we will be more than happy to come home, on our own terms, though we may regret some of the friends we will have to leave behind.

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