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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: one_less who wrote (166430)7/18/2005 2:29:22 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I know I said I will leave it at my last post, but I do not want you to be left misunderstanding of my position...so:

>> You push that culpability to far by suggesting it was somehow by our design.

I am not saying that the Taliban came to power by US design. I am saying that US' single-minded pursuit of inflicting the most damage to the Russians at the lowest monetary cost and its later lack of appreciation for the people who fought its biggest foe was immoral. Bad acts always come to bite us in the rear, even if at the time they look like fastest path to achieving good ends. As hard as you may try, you will not be able to justify factual relations between US and Afghan fighters as anything beyond convergence of short term interests. If it had been friendship and concern, in its everyday sense, then it would not have ended up as it did.

That's all.

BTW, about Afghan rulers, you can thank the British for the period of 1919 to 1933 (but even then no warlordism as you see in parts of Africa). After that, as you see there was relative calm and dare I say even progress till about 1978. There after it was the theatre of US-USSR acts.

[edit] from an earlier post:

"Pragmatic reasons for any policy must always be consistent with moral rationale. If bad means appear to achieve good ends in the short term, then it is simply that we have failed to appreciate the real costs which in fact outweigh the presumed benefits."
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