The presence of U.S. and NATO troops on Afghan soil breeds resentment among both the warlords and the population, making it easier to recruit insurgents and target the occupier. This is the same phenomenon that helped trigger al-Qaeda’s attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
This is not to say that America deserved to be attacked; it is only to say that we need to understand why it happened.
Our strategy in Afghanistan must learn from—not repeat—our past mistakes. The insurgency in Afghanistan and the wider radicalism seeping through Islam is fueled in large part by unnecessary U.S. encroachment in Muslim countries. If we stick around we only put ourselves in harm’s way.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Leave Afghanistan to the Afghans
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