Is the united states, and all our Allies winning the war in Afghanistan?? I beleive The war against Taliban is dragging us into a non winnable situation, if the U.S popular sentiment changes we might have to cede the whole of Afghanistan to the Taliban. So let's imagine this different scenario. We offer the Taliban a part of the geographical land, it could be a quarter a third, even possibly a half, the U.S and the community of the world guarantees the independence of both sides /countries. Now a few conditions are de rigueur, first both sides can not have armies, only internal police, secondly allowing absolute freedom to all citizens or group of citizens or families or whole communities that would like to cross over and live permanently within the other sides, of course this would apply to both sides. One part would be a democratic and free (as much as can be expected) society, that we and the free world would help educate and prosper like any other country in the world, the other will be run I assume, under the ideas and principles of the new islamisation of certain societies, so let this part be run and managed by the Taliban, with firm guaranties by both sides to stop any outside hostile activity and not engage or help in any terrorists acts, the United States with the international community can better enforce and police both sides to ensure the respect of these rules. The general population will choose where to live , and will have a free choice to move anytime they so wish in the future.
Let the two models compete in all fairness, and let the world watch, I for one would be very interested to see how these two models could evolve, we might solve this growing islamisation wave, that is threatening our times and future.
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ReplyDeleteIt is possibly and unwinnable war. I forget why The USA is still in Afganistan. I thought it was to rout Alqaeda, which I think is done and Dusted, except for Binladen who I think is in Pakistan anyway.... In any case, is the US there as part of a "United Nations" mandate or part of a "coallition of the willing" sort of thing?
ReplyDeleteI do not think that your partitioning idea is acceptable to the Taliban who see it as an invader who is occupying their country and they are not about to settle for "up to half" back.
Also "no armies" is a nonstarter. These peoples and their guns is a way of life. They have always been clans, tribes and little armies.
I wholeheartedly agree that religious extremism is a problem and I wonder what can be done about it.... Perhaps, Real and Active Democracies are a solution (For Arab countries),however that is going to be very difficult to achieve since reigning Arab heads of state usually crush Democratic movements in the bud (sometimes citing terrorism) since they (rightly)perceive them to be a threat to their reign.Also the West seems happy to let these Monarchs remain in place so long as they "play ball".
I also don't know that Islam and Democracy can be ideologically and Practically compatible.
Perhaps Indonesia has worked this out, but I am personally so not qualified to assess that...
Even in Lebanon (not a democracy in my book)which is on the face of it, seems the most easy to adapt to change, Lebanon dabbled with mere "Globalization" but it was quashed by Religious heads from all sides who feared that their influence will be marginalized.