| The Missing Word in Our Afghanistan Strategy
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Neither man called for the defeat of the Taliban or declared its return to power unacceptable. Instead, Mr. Obama offered a lesser goal, namely to "break the Taliban's momentum." That is hardly a strategy that will galvanize people—as the King James Bible expressed it, "For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?"
Nor did Messrs. Obama or Cameron emphasize, as their predecessors did, the importance of liberty and human rights in Afghanistan. One of the remarkable achievements of the removal of the Taliban was the emergence of a nascent (if still imperfect) Afghan democracy, one that respects the rights of Afghan women. It would be a brutal betrayal to allow these rights to be extinguished.
Wars involve tactical shifts and adjustments. But they also involve "red lines"—and in Afghanistan, the red line must be to defeat al Qaeda and the irreconcilable elements of the Taliban, and to keep them from seizing power again.
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Never forget the often quoted Obama admin. saying about not letting a crisis go to waste.
Any human rights abuses arising out of this will be exploited in the same old small time Chicago pol way. |
