Saturday, November 28, 2009

To Surge or Not to Surge: in Afghanistan-6

The last thing to do is to have a stepped up effort to track all financial and material support to terrorist organizations. Funding in the guise of Charities should be monitored and no effort should be spared to put those people responsible for funding to put them out of business.
We are in a different kind of war and some of the niceties of laws would have to be bended in order for us to win this war. The Taliban are usually funded through religious charities and wealthy individuals and these should be monitored and tracked especially in the Gulf and European countries.
But we should also make sure that people in the United States should also not flaunt the law and give charities which can be used as funding by the terrorist organizations.
Drug money and extortions by the taliban in Pakistan should be followed and seized immediately if proven. We have been too lax to apply our laws to curtail these fundings which are used to kill our troops. Our troops deserve a fair fight and they should not be subject to terrorism. If we believe that this is a different kind of war then all the rules of a conventional war should not be applied and the troops should be free to use whatever means necessary to secure themselves from Taliban suicide bombers even if means collateral damage since there will be some innocent blood spill but that is what we call WAR.

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