General Allen says tough days ahead in Afghanistan. Is he ever right!
The assassinations of high Afghan government officials by their own trusted security personnel mark
a new phase in the Afghan war, and a dangerous one. It will be clear in a few months, as if it isn’t already,
that we cannot win here. The idea of ‘nation building’ in Afghanistan is ridiculous and has been since the
day George Bush sent in our troops. Our only purpose anywhere in Pakistan or Afghanistan should be to
spoil attempts to attack us. We do not need boots on the ground to do that. Back when India and Pakistan
were partitioned, the US made a fundamental strategic mistake to provide foreign aid to the latter instead
of the former. As a result, Pakistan is a hopelessly corrupt failed state and cannot be rescued. It has to beread more