Thoughts on AF-Pak since it will be a campaign issue and is already beginning to be something of an albatross on the Presidents neck. The Problem with the situation is that we are being told that they are in a counter insurgency engagement, but the fact remains it is anything but this and no one has the balls to step up and tell the American People that this is a study in patience if we want to be able to say we have a "WIN" in our books, but what is a win?
Also, The reason this is not a counter insurgency is by its very nature it cannot be called such as we are fighting Afghans in Afghanistan and not foreign fighters like we did in IRAQ which was a counter insurgency operation. In Iraq we made the cost of fighting us outweigh the prize of holding neighborhoods and towns that weren't there's in the first place or to in easier terms to understand why would they fight and die for land that they have no connection to? THis all brings us back to the AF-Pak and what are we doing there? what are our goals? what do we hope to obtain by staying?
We have A leader in Karzai who is absolutely playing US against them and is weak outside of Kabul and without our DSS and contractors would be dead in minutes, so anything he says cannot be trusted nor should it be as he is a puppet and nothing more.
In addition to a weak government the dirty secret no one reports is the fact we have never held any ground successfully in AF-pak, but that doesn't mean we don't try its just that we cannot hold ground that is not willing to be held, which is apparent by the lack of assistance form the population and unwillingness in large numbers to support our efforts.
What to do? Not sure, but one thing is for certain. We will not come out clean on this and perhaps the best option for the untied states is to pull back and allow the bloodshed that will come one way or another once we leave.
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