Comments on U.S. Staying in Afghanistan

• America's war in Afghanistan is unwinnable. The term, "winning," as used by U.S. politicians and pundits, has been vaguely referred to as:
   
  • Creating a democracy. A non-homogeneous country of mostly illiterate members of ethnic groups and tribes, religious fanatics, in a land in which corruption is the standard culture, cannot produce a democracy.  There is not the ethnic coherence.  Afghans are an unruly mix of Pashtuns, Uzbeks, Hazaras, Tajiks, and Aimaks, Turkmen, among others. The Taliban are mostly Sunni and ethnic Pashtuns. Most of the population of Afghanistan belong to the same ethnic group as the Taliban. Recognize—finally—that Afghanistan is a primitive country with primitive values, and with no chance for the type of government that America's dreamers seek to force upon the mostly illiterate people.
     
  • Establishing an Afghanistan army and police force. Those attempts have been met with repeated failures. Another argument is that the United States train and arms huge numbers of Afghans to fight other Afghans. The early attempts to do this resulted in the newly armed Afghans turning their weapons over to the Taliban. The Afghan army and police force that U.S. dreamers recognize as being necessary cannot be achieved, as shown by the record of personnel disappearance; disappearance with weapons sold or given to the Taliban; massive illiteracy; unwillingness to fight; abandonment of posts; refusal to engage the "enemy;" and other problems.
     
  • Denying al Qaeda a base of operations. Among the arguments for continuing the eight-years of war in Afghanistan  is that it is a war of necessity to prevent al Qaeda a base of operations. But  al Qaeda can operate from others countries, such as Yemen. Also, there are so many people wanting to kill Americans, due to the actions of U.S. politicians, that they don't need an central base of operations.
     
  • Taliban were part of the 9/11 plot and had to be punished. It was not Afghans that attacked the United States; it was Arabs from other countries, some of which had temporally used the remote and uncontrolled area of Afghanistan for training. It was al Qaeda that attacked the United States, and they were Arabs, temporarily located in the remote uncontrolled areas of Afghanistan. The Taliban probably had no knowledge of the planned 9/11 attacks.
     
  • Further, evidence cited in the books, Crimes of the FBI-DOJ, Mafia, and al Qaeda, and Unfriendly Skies: 20th & 21st Centuries, reveals the corruption of key people in the United States that made it child's play for the terrorists to hijack four airliners on 9/11 and kill nearly 3,000 people. For those willing to exert some mental effort, the same people that are now protecting the United States made the 9/11 and other catastrophic events possible.