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Afghanistan
Why we will lose in Afghanistan
2009-12-07
Posted by:tipper

#2  An American perspective is that the same could be said about the fratricidal wars that represented Europe for over the same long period of time.

And the solution to those wars was ethnically homogenous states.

And we are hardly ever told the Afghan civil war is an ethnic civil war.
Posted by: phil_b   2009-12-07 17:54  

#1  What we are hardly ever told about the country is that it has been for 300 years the scene of a bitter civil war, says Christopher Booker

An American perspective is that the same could be said about the fratricidal wars that represented Europe for over the same long period of time. Now Central and Western Europe have enjoyed the longest period of peace since the Roman Empire at the expense of the American taxpayer for over fifty years.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-12-07 15:45  

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