If you are a Taliban commander, what would you do to counter ISAF operations like the one currently going on in Helmland?
Would you stand and fight NATO onslaught and expect to lose 9 out of 10 soldiers, or you sacrifice a few of your least valuable units and slip out of area of operation and setup somewhere else and return later?
Greed is not a capitalist-only phenomenon. I've read another report which an Afghan farmer told the reporter how he doesn't like government to rule over him and how he wants to grow poppy flowers instead of crops. I don't know what kind of morality he practices, but it sounds very immoral to me to get rich by growing poppy flower, knowing that some other people will buy them to produce illegal drugs. However, what brings money, brings guns and power, and the war can be self-sustaining.
This is not good if Obama wants win (which is not the case), and this is also not good if Obama wants to disengage. Either way, Afghanistan is lost to drug smugglers.
The question is whether a heavily drugged Arab world a danger to the rest of the world like the one it is today? |