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Most want to win.
Some say America cannot win. Some say America must
win. |
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Has anyone
including politicians,
generals, pundits,
and ordinary people paused
to identify what it
actually means to "Win In Afghanistan"? Has anyone
put together a brief
business-plan approach
that identifies "Win" before
attempting to make strategic decisions
regarding Afghanistan? |
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To continue
waging an ill-defined war
without first accurately identifying what win means,
is to recklessly lose American and allied lives,
unnecessarily maim our forces, and further erode the
United States' military
standing before the world. The only way to win is to,
1.) Define
"win";
2.) Devise a plan
that reasonably assures
our win; and,
3.) Correctly implement that plan. |
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An American
/ Allied loss is a win for global terrorism
and terrorists. The war in
Afghanistan must be
analyzed using a business-plan
approach. |
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What does "Win In
Afghanistan" mean for free people? Consider what
objectives often define winning in a war: |
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-- End a despotic
ruler's control and destruction; |
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-- Ensure that
people are free to choose to live as they prefer to
live and build their rescued,
salvaged nation into a safe, productive,
developing, cooperative nation; |
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-- Make the world
more safe and
somewhat more good -- at
least temporarily. |
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What does win mean to the people of Afghanistan? |
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In order for the
American coalition to help the
Afghan people win a war
against internal and externally-funded fanatics,
those people must have a desire to be liberated and
then be willing to fight and work
to live free. |
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Afghanistan is not a
nation of one people. It is a
land mass holding tribes and factional groups
with multiple leaders,
multiple disparate causes, and
short-term economic objectives. |
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If the Taliban, al
Quada, tribes, and
terrorist groups of all
sorts were to be eliminated from Afghanistan,
what would the Afghan people do? They have no
leadership hierarchy that could
provide a local, regional, and national
unity, no nationally unifying force
promoting productivity, no
national cohesion that might lead to peaceful
coexistence among tribes. |
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Were the Taliban, al
Quada, and like groups eliminated from Afghanistan,
tribes would likely congeal, new leaders would
arise, and rivalries would build factions. A
new war of a new form
would take shape. |
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The USSR's military
experienced defeat in Afghanistan
after a decade-long war. To the USSR, to win
ultimately was defined as getting out. |
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An American win in
Afghanistan would result in a new congealing of
tribal entities following the
loss of unknown numbers of
liberating forces. When the new alignments finished
blooming and started feuding again and Afghanistan
was enmeshed in war and again
became a terrorist safe-haven,
the world would again
deride America. The world would scoff at the USA
because America lost more of
its most valuable
treasure, The Best Of The Best --
those who fought to save Afghanistan -- and
ultimately lost. |
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Much of the world realizes
Afghanistan cannot be saved.
Afghanistan is a geographic collection of
agrarian tribes. It is not a nation.
It is bounded by its neighbors' borders, not by its
borders. Afghanistan cannot be force-formed into the
shape of a nation. |
