07-04-2007, 05:17 PM
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We are going to fail for the same reasons we have the kind of gun control we have and many of the other shortcomings in Canadian society: Canadians are scared of their own shadow and anything that might be "icky". If it might require doing or experiencing unpleasant things, then better to play the "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" game.
So eventually, it will become a political liability to remain in Afghanistan. We'll leave and instead just give money to Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International, etc. They'll take the money and, ultimately, accomplish SFA. The UN will continue waggling their fingers no matter what the Taliban do (and what else could the UN do with Canada and others bugging out?).
The Taliban won't quit killing women, those who won't pray, etc no matter what Amnesty International does. The torture and beatings won't stop.
Doctors Without Borders isn't going to fight for women's rights to medical help when the Taliban tell them men don't deal with women who aren't their wives. And, good folks though they are, they ain't gonna stick around once a few of their folks get capped - they just don't stick around in situations like that.
At the same time, our leaving will tell the Taliban that we have neither the heart nor spine to stand up to them, and they'll take that as a sign they can spread the madrassas and their peculiar views on Islam further and further. Anyone who thinks our sacrificing Afghanistan to the Taliban is going to solve either the Muslim or Christian world's problems with murderous Muslim extremists is dreaming in technicolor. Sooner or later we will be looking at the Taliban over gunsights again... and the next time may well be much closer to home, in an environment where they're much more difficult to deal with.
So we we bail and run home with our tails between our legs - not beaten by the Taliban but by our moral and political cowardice - and therefore add another chapter of history about how it is supposedly impossible to win in Afghanistan, when we should be adding a chapter that discusses how political expediency and moral cowardice make failure inevitable. People will write "told ya so" books for years about the "invincible Taliban" and how fighting in Afghanistan is foolhardy. Others will add those books to their libraries as proof of the invincible Taliban. Meanwhile, all the stuff that doesn't make the news like a ramp ceremony does - like a well dug by Canadians that provides clean drinking water and thus prevents dozens of kids dying year in and year out from contaminated wells - won't happen any further. And so, THAT death toll (which far outstrips the accidental deaths caused by Canadians), simply goes on, and on, and on, year in, year out...
But cheer up, it won't make the news, no Canadians were killed while these kids died. Voila! Success! Everybody's happy!"
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