The Mess In Afghanistan

Fighting for freedom? Fighting for democracy? I’m not convinced!

Approaching 10 years since the invasion of Afghanistan, the Obama administration recently pushed back a targeted 2011 pullout to 2014 citing concerns about the stability of the U.S. puppet government headed by Hamid Karzai. Basically, we proles, are to believe that we can eventually install a national military police force capable of crushing any decent. Of course no one is questioning who will pay them! Right now America is picking up the bill in a “jobs plan” for the Taliban, but who will pay them when (if) we leave?

It’s basic economics! If a town or “group” of people desire to have “protection,” they sacrifice a little to pay the protection. The problem in Afghanistan: the people have no desire to pay a national police force, period! There is no market! Sure America is attempting to create one by showering millions (billions) of dollars at anyone who moves, but it’s not something the people of Afghanistan are behind. As most live in shacks and are in virtually poverty. They simply can’t afford to start forming an expensive national government or national police force, but don’t tell that to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama!

Let’s look at how building this police force is coming, from the AP:

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan border police officer opened fire on U.S. troops during a training mission in the east of the country Monday, killing six American service members before he was shot dead, U.S. and Afghan officials said.

The shooting — the highest toll for NATO forces since nine Americans died in a Sept. 21 helicopter crash — was the latest in a series of shootouts in which Afghan security forces have turned on their NATO partners.

The attack also highlights the potential hazards of a push to speedily expand Afghanistan’s army and police forces in the next few years. The goal is to turn over the responsibility for nationwide security to Afghan forces by 2014 so that NATO troops can go home.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the gunman joined the border police in order to kill foreign soldiers.
“Today he found this opportunity and he killed six invaders,” Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement e-mailed to the media.

The shooter was wearing an Afghan border police uniform, NATO said, but did not provide additional details on how the shooting happened or his identity. A spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, Zemeri Bashary, confirmed that the gunman was a border police officer, rather than an insurgent who had donned the uniform to infiltrate government forces.

The incident happened in Pachir Wagam district of Nangarhar province — right on the border with Pakistan, Bashary said.
NATO declined to identify the nationalities of the victims, but a U.S. official said all six of the dead were American. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because next of kin had not yet been informed.

An investigation team has been sent to the area, said Gen. Aminullah Amerkhail, the regional border police commander for eastern Afghanistan. But he said information is not coming back quickly.

There have been a number of incidents in which Afghan police officers turned on their trainers in deadly shootouts.
NATO is investigating an incident in which two U.S. Marines were killed earlier this month in southern Helmand province, allegedly at the hands of an Afghan army soldier.

How would you like to be a family member who is indirectly funding (through taxes) terrible decisions like this? We basically paid a few “terrorists” to join this “force,” then, they turned on our soldiers in some “Allah, Allah” moment.

Nation-building doesn’t work! We cannot afford to build schools, water companies, electricity plants, police forces, military and etc in Afghanistan, we’re having enough trouble paying for it here at home (see $14 trillion national debt)! Even if we continue borrowing from China and Saudi Arabia to fund these projects in Afghanistan, who will pay when we leave? As I mentioned, there is no market or demand coming from the people of Afghanistan!

Our mission in Afghanistan is occupation not “fighting for freedom.”

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