US intelligence: Afghanistan in ‘downward spiral’ under Hamid Karzai’s government.

 

1. To be fair, everyone from Alexander the Great to the Soviets have tried, and failed, to pacify and stabilize Afghanistan. And yes, I believe the job is impossible as long as our enemies can flee across the border to the territory of a nominal “ally” and we can’t really go after them there.
   And no, it cannot possibly work in the long term *regardless what we do*, unless and until something can be put in place to fill the HUGE economic niche currently filled by the opium trade.

   Posted by GrumpyOldFart       10/09/2008  at  02:21 PM  

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