Forgotten Countries Sometimes Act Out To Get Attention
Everybody's favorite opium-soaked red-headed stepchild.
President Bush, 6/19/03: We sent a clear message to the Taliban in Afghanistan: if you harbor and train terrorists, you will be held account. The Taliban is no more, and the people of Afghanistan are free, thanks to America and our friends and allies.
Reality, 2/27/07: A suicide bomber killed 19 people and wounded 11 outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility and said Cheney was the target.
There's more recent Afghani history in my archives here and a harrowing first-person account of the nearly impossible counterinsurgency here. Afghanistan is but a poor fading star of multinational neglect when compared to the supernova of Iraqi failure, but still a glaring reminder of our war on terror half-assery. I guess we could try and get Pakistan to help out, what after (a) its top scientist sold nuclear secrets to every rogue state in the rogue state yellow pages (b) its intelligence service helped to birth the Taliban (c) it signed truces allowing for a regrouped Taliban safe haven, but:
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf insisted his forces have already "done the maximum" possible against extremists in their territory — and insisted that other allies also shoulder responsibility in the U.S.-led war on terrorism.
Sounds like somebody's been to Bush Administration Blame-Shifting Governance Camp!
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There's a list and another post about this. seriously. like a spreadsheet or a simple table showing all the attacks to countries harboring talibans that bush turned into miserable military and diplomatic failures.
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Not just Afghanistan
We let the Somali Taliban take over Somalia, leaving it to Ethiopia to deal with it. We let Saudi Arabia support terrorists. We ignore most al-Qaeda linked groups around the world as we sink into the Iraq quagmire and set our sights on the even worse disaster to come in Iran.
Simply put, we are losing the war against terrorism because of Bush's incompetence and the greed and corruption of the Halliburton Republicans.