Friday, November 27, 2009

To surge or not to Surge- in Afghanistan:-2

The first thing that needs to be done is Corruption. Corruption is now the biggest problem in Afghanistan. In order to survive, the new Afghan government has to bribe all sorts of people with different needs and agenda in order to effectively govern. It is not that we will completely eliminate the corruption there but at least we need to curtail it to the extent that the people there can see where all the foreign money in going and if this means we have to bypass the Afghan government in some cases so be it. At least we will know and see what effect our aid is having on the Afghan population.

The Second thing is the porous border with Pakistan. That border is actually not a border recognized by either sides and it is called the Durand line (Named after the British guy who just put a line in the sand stating that this is you and this is us long time ago). People will say that how we can monitor the Afghanistan border when we are not able to control our own border with Mexico. But there is a big difference, our border with Mexico is not controlled the Armed forces of the United States but in Afghanistan it does. Although the Afghan people (effectively right now the Pushtuns) have never recognized this border and keep on crossing it like it is just the next block in the neighborhood.

Nobody is stopping them to just curtail this thing but it can still be monitored for arms and Taliban fighters. For this we have to put more troops there and strictly monitor the long border with as many troops as possible.

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