Afghanistan

We have been in Afghanistan, in strength, since 9-11.  That’s 20 years ago.  In that time we should have reformed the madrassahs into schools teaching the three R’s, rather than Jihad.  We should have done land reform, so that the peasants, who worked the land, owned the land.  This would have required dispossessing a lot of land lords, who would have bitched to high heaven, but so what?  We should have insisted on fair elections in each district of Afghanistan to select representatives to an Afghan central government.  We should have insisted that as a first act, the new central government approve a national constitution that we wrote with a lot of help from serious Afghans. 

   I am not sure just what we actually did in the last 20 years in Afghanistan.  Our noble MSM didn’t tell us much.  Apparently we left a lot of Taliban sympathizers alive and in business.  Enough Talibansters to lead to the shameful bugout from Afghanistan back in August.