Is It Possible To Win The War Whose Victims Are Primarily Civilians?

"For all the undoubted brilliance of new U.S. commander General David Petraeus, he cannot make bricks without Afghan straw. The most likely outcome is that we shall declare victory and come home some time quite soon, thank goodness. There has been much talk about fighting on until 2014. I believe that even if we keep going until 2054, Afghanistan will still be ungovernable,” says Hastings.

The latest incident, in which three British soldiers were shot by a soldier in the Afghan army, only confirms the theses of the British military analyst. Afghans do not need order which rests exclusively on the bayonets of the international coalition. And the more civilians suffer in the course of this endless war, the more supporters the Taliban will get. It will be those opposed to foreign occupation, whose goals are more difficult to justify even by the UN mandate.

Ivan Tulyakov
Pravda.Ru

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