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2011-02-24 Afghanistan

Bing West On Afghanistan: Get Troops Back To War Fighting

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-02-24 11:06|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I see the situation as anything but easy. To start with, the real problem in the region is Pakistan. Afghanistan was just their back yard. This meant that, from the start, we should have split the two apart, and kept them apart, and dealt with them as different problems.

As far as Afghanistan goes, we should have set up a MacArthur (PBUH) style military government, for five to ten years, just to get Afghanistan functioning as a country again.

We then should have made the Pushtun a deal: you are either Afghans, or Pakistanis, not both. Pick a country, and that is where you will remain. No more border hopping. Then we seal the border. Not an easy task, but it could have been done. All traffic goes via the Khyber Pass, and NATO are the gate guards. Anything else gets shot.

Then take all males from the border regions, and give them labor intensive government infrastructure rebuilding jobs. With all their pay kept in a bank in Kabul until they are released. Free tent, food and medical care.

All the villages would be run by councils of women, who would legally own all property. Any unauthorized male would be arrested on sight. All children would be put in secure, western style boarding schools. Their daily prayers would be just that--no sermons--then back to school. No madrassas.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-02-24 12:56|| 2011-02-24 12:56|| Front Page Top

#2 here, here!

Posted by Broadhead6 2011-02-24 12:56|| 2011-02-24 12:56|| Front Page Top

#3 I saw him on Colbert Report. Awesome. Warfighting not nation building or get out is the take away. We've been there about ten years is it now?

Posted by Fire and Ice 2011-02-24 13:22|| 2011-02-24 13:22|| Front Page Top

#4 We haven't tried the shampoo method and it probably is worth a go.

Lather, scrub, rinse...repeat as necessary.

Posted by Alan Cramer 2011-02-24 13:36|| 2011-02-24 13:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The real problem in the region is Islam. They need to figure out a way to live in a world at peace where the only conversions they make are voluntary. Until then, when they try to increase the Dar-es-Salaam by violence, it will be reduced by violence. Once we've reduced it, we leave. And if we have to come back. we reduce it to something smaller than we did the prior time. Either they will get the message and change or they will disappear. I am indifferent as to which outcome occurs.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-02-24 14:18|| 2011-02-24 14:18|| Front Page Top

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