Sunday, May 13, 2012

Assassination of Afghan peace envoy more proof of our success

State Department officials are hailing the latest setback to Afghan peace as a great step forward.

Arsala Rahmani was executed by a lone gunman at point bank range as he was being driven to his office in the Afghan capital.

Rahmani was a former Taliban hand-picked by our hand-picked democratic leader, Karzai, to lead peace talks with the Taliban.

As always in such cases, State Department officials are quick to point out that there is a silver lining. The fact that "the enemy" can reach into the heart of Kabul and eliminate a heavily guarded target is not proof they are winning.

No!

Rather, it is proof that our strategy is working. Such acts are acts of desperation by a foe that knows it is on the ropes.

In much the same vein, Senator McCain recently observed that the fact the Taliban now control more of the country than at any time since our invasion eleven years ago is also proof that our strategy is working.

I suppose we are continually bombarded with such idiocy because the option is unthinkable; admitting that the war was a mistake from the beginning, that it is irretrievably lost, and that the only honest and ethical option is for NATO, ISAF, and the US military to pack up and go home.


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