Michael Hughes: Saving Afghansitan Requires Smashing Dangerous Delusions
T.S. Eliot once posited that “war is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted”. Yet U.S. policy in Afghanistan, borne out of ignorance and/or willful neglect, appears bent on doing both as America’s miscalculations continue to breathe life into a rag-tag acephalic insurgency – misbegotten strategies that shall likely yield a foreign military presence in Central Asia until the end times.
This same carelessness or purposeful pretermission is evident in recent U.S. efforts to shepherd the negotiations process between the Taliban and the Afghan government, as American policymakers make decisions without weighing predictable blowback and without understanding the core tribal values of Afghan society.
The American public has been trained by the media and U.S. policymakers to digest the world in Manichaen sound bites primarily driven by the election cycle as decision-makers and members of the press seem to be operating based on their own political agendas rather than on finding the most sound and peaceful resolution to the war, which has enabled policies based on unfounded predications to prevail.
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