Bogging Down in Kabul
Rather than a limited mission to fight al Qaeda and support the existing Afghan government, we seem increasingly drawn into a hazily defined effort to reconstruct Afghan society so as to create a stable unitary government. If the issue here were simply that Hamid Karzai lacks certain things that the United States has in abundance—money, guns, air support—then this might be a reasonable objective. But in reality, Karzai is missing things we have no ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
It is foolish to think that we can install a strong central government in a country that has never had one and (mainly) doesn't want one. The best we can do is negotiate or isolate various tribes/ethnic groups to try to achieve the goal of minimizing the influence of Al Qeada.