Posted on 10/30/2017 5:41:52 AM PDT by rktman
Politico provides an account of a State Department election night “party” in Kabul’s U.S. embassy. The author, May Jeong, describes the State Department employees, "who are officially barred from political activism while living abroad but tend to support Democrats.”
As proof she reports, “On the wall hung a Donald Trump piñata.” She reports a change in the party’s attitude when it became clear that Trump was going to win the election. The article explains the role of Scott Guggenheim, “senior adviser” to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. He describes Guggenheim as, “one of the most powerful people in the country.” Guggenheim has worked with Ghani since 2002. Ghani and Guggenheim are member of the same elite. Ghani is described as “former academic whose lifelong passion has been studying how to fix broken countries.” Guggenheim spent the first half of his career as an international development expert. They attended some of the same schools and both worked for the World Bank.
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What policy?
Exactly. There is no articulable goal.
What is U.S. policy?
It depends on what policy you are speaking of, the fake war policy, or the real opium policy.
IF we HAD a policy, it would likely be doomed. Like the Soviet’s, like the British, etc...
History, man there is so much we could learn...
regards,
There is one word, Islam
We are fighting a culture on its own turf that wants to be the savages they are.
We have to fly or drive supplies and people from very far away, through mountain passes.
Every world power in history that has tried to tame that land has failed.
The government of that country is corrupt and infiltrated with the guys we’re trying to fight.
We need to have the humility to see that we can’t solve every problem around the world.
This article is basically a cut-and-paste from the original Politic article.
It was doomed from the start, as was the mess in Iraq, and everywhere else where US politicians think they can play out their world-shaping fantasies with American lives and money. Islam is the problem. We should never have intervened to defend Saudi Arabia from Saddam. Look how they repaid us. Now, thanks to Bush and Obama, the US is being flooded with Muslim invaders and that is the biggest threat to our security.
Ban Islam in western nations, deport all Muslims, bring US troops home and put them on US borders, and institute a pet-the-pig requirement to enter a western nation or board a plane. Let them kill each other in their own crappy countries. Keep them out of the civilized world.
Agree with these posts.
We have no goals. We have no strategy.
Islam is the issue. Times 10 in the land of dirt monkey savages.
The only solution in Afghanistan is medieval and extreme even by their standards.
What? No tribal call out for those in Dumbassistan? Thanks. ;-)
“The only solution in Afghanistan is medieval and extreme even by their standards.”
And we know that will never happen. If the Russians couldn’t conquer them using methods that the US would never even consider, then there is no hope for our namby-pamby nation-building BS. The US is just wasting precious American lives over there.
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