Blowback

Right after 9/11, I started looking into the characters involved in the day to day in Afghanistan. What I saw indicated that we were going to go through the same cycle of arming and supporting all the wrong people that gave us none other than Bin Laden.

Pictured here... General Abdul Rashid Dostrum appeared to be one of the worst. He was a known badass right from the git go, but we still allied ourselves with him, giving him money and weapons. Now understand, I am a woodworker by trade and I was able to indentify him as a poor risk and a threat to our efforts there. Why is it that out of all the great minds we have in our military and diplomatic corps, none could come to the same conclusion? When will we stop arming the wrong guys? When will we ever learn?

An excerpt from a story just read........

Afghanistan was not militarily winnable by the British Empire at the height of its supremacy. It was not winnable by Darius or Alexander, by Shah, Tsar or Great Moghul. It could not be subdued by 240,000 Soviet troops. But what, precisely, are we trying to win?
In six years, the occupation has wrought one massive transformation in Afghanistan, a development so huge that it has increased Afghan GDP by 66 per cent and constitutes 40 per cent of the entire economy. That is a startling achievement, by any standards. Yet we are not trumpeting it. Why not? The answer is this. The achievement is the highest harvests of opium the world has ever seen. .....More