Odd Citizen
An Odd Citizen’s Search For Vanishing Freedoms

Sep

15

What Next in Afghanistan?

Filed Under Suggestions, Uncategorized

Is it worthwhile or even wise for the U.S. to spend blood and treasure to build up the Afghan state? Do we really care if the Taliban regains control over Afghanistan? If we really cared about Islamic fanaticism then we should smite Saudi Arabia, the source of it all.

Let’s remember that the original purpose of our operations in Afghanistan was to get our hands on Osama Bin Laden and his cohorts. This made obvious good sense given the events of 9/11/01. Our beef with the Taliban was Mullah Omar’s refusal to hand over the Al Qaeda leaders and close the training camps. So we linked up with some Afghan enemies of Mullah Omar and kicked his butt. But we didn’t get Osama and his buddies.

Now, I’d like to offer a recipe for future operations in Afghanistan:

1. Forget state building. Fiercely and single mindedly conduct military operations going after Al Qaeda focusing on Bin Laden, Al Zawahiri, and other top figures, plus Mullah Omar. We’re not making friends here. We’re on a single-minded mission. We should fight with the best weapons we have and ignore the collateral damage.

2. Offer the Taliban a deal. After they deliver us the heads of the above individuals we’ll immediately withdraw and let them fight it out with their countrymen. We really don’t care who wins that battle.

3. We reserve the right to bring down hellfire without limit on the heads of the Afghans if they harbor Islamic terrorists in the future. They can be as viciously Islamic as they want within their own borders, but don’t even think of spreading it to us or our allies.

4. Pakistan will object to operations on their soil. But they have the incentive to take on the Taliban for their own salvation. If they want to team up with us, great. We welcome the help. But without their help we’ll get the job done on our own.

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