My View

My view
The Afghan elections are making the news right now, we in the west are increasingly questioning the legitimacy of Hamid Karzai’s victory. This is fine as far as it goes but we must always remember our mission in Afghanistan, which was to track down and punish those who want to come to the west and hurt our populations and punish those who want to come to the west and speared their malicious ideas. My view is this we should look to have a very strong Afghan central government run by a man who is capable of governing Afghanistan with an Iron fist, who isn’t Islamist and who is more than capable of taking on any rebels that my want to take on the central government when we leave.

Our role there is not to bring democracy, while it’s a good form of government, democracy typically takes root when a populous wants it and there is no clear indication the Afghans want democracy right now, on top of which Afghanistan needs a strong centrifugal force emanating from Kabul, otherwise it is in danger of spinning apart into it smaller separate constituent parts. In my view this policy does have a name and a face and it is general Abdul Rashid Dostum, with very little money the warlord the Taliban have never beaten could summon up an army of at least 150,000 men and go forth laying waste to the Taliban in the south. The price we in the west would have to pay for this is the acceptance that Dostum would take charge in Kabul as a dictator. That’s something I can live with


Two issues that may develop

Watch out for the name Fergana valley there are a bunch of Al Qaeda boys on the run there and there is a possibility the Chinese may lunch a rescue mission to get back their hijacked bulk carrier from Somalia pirates