AND WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF ROTTEN AMERICAN GOVERNANCE!

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Read this - http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2011/11/18/shine_a_light_on_americas_afghan-iraqi_rathole/page/full/ - with a strong brush or with a steel comb to put back your hair, because it is sure to stand on end. UNIMAGINABLE. That at a time of crisis the Washington DC leadership should frivolously waste TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS - and I am not, repeat not, exaggerating - on failed policies simply beggars belief. I was in favour of the Afghanistan war, but unless it is fought as a war ought to be fought - rather than this crazed nation-building waste in a place that does not want to be nation-built - then I say take the soldiers home and we'll take our chances with Al Qaeda and the other swine. We can't afford this trash, and I don't just mean the USA. Unless crazed war spending is curtailed, it's not only the USA that will lose. You can't bribe people into being your friend, especially if you entered their country by force. The WWII parallel simply does not hold: not only in Italy and Germany, but even in Japan, there were considerable forces - ultimately the majority - that ranged from a willingness to put up with, to an enthusiastic support of, democratic governance and American supremacy. Guess what? In Afghanistan there aren't. And that is not just because this is a Muslim country, but because the forces that supported a secular and westernizing policy took the Soviet side in the first civil war and were destroyed. London is thick with Afghani refugees from the old pro-Soviet government, who will never go home again. The barbarous murder of Najibullah represents the utter defeat of these forces, and successive waves of mujaheddin and Taliban tyranny have pushed Afghanistan ever further in one direction and one direction alone. When the Allies entered Italy, Germany and Japan they found whole groups of liberals, Christian democrats, social democrat, republican opponents, coming out of millions of hiding places and blinking in the sudden sunlight; in Afghanistan, they found... tribal Muslim warriors, and more tribal Muslim warriors. The whole hearts-and-mind project is nonsense and must be killed; it has degenerated into the most monstrous festival of corruption and theft in history, in which enormous sums go directly over to the enemy and allow them to go on murdering (what they do is not really fighting) our troops. And if the war can't be fought without this monstrous waste of money, then it must not be fought at all. As for those who allowed it to take this grotesque shape, impeachment's too good for any one of them.