The U.S. is fighting two wars now, in Iraq and in Afghanistan. A recent assessment by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was relayed to the White House that more resources are needed in Afghanistan or a military victory there may not be possible. And now the White House must decide where to go from here.
Another deadly attack had taken place on Sunday Oct 4, where eight US soldiers were killed at a remote Afghan outpost by the Taliban. Is this lost of lives justified? Is this war justified? What should the U.S. do with the Afghan War? The outposts? Is it to keep or not to keep?
The war in Iraq should end. Clearly, the Bush Administration has already made the admittance that it was misinformed by bad intelligence and that Iraq did not have weapon of mass destruction. With that, the Iraq War should ve ended and the U.S. were to give the country some reparation for the mistake. But such arrangement had not happened.
The true war with Terrorists lie in Afghanistan and while General McChrystal was concerned about winning the war there against the Taliban, for security reasons, for monitoring terrorist activities, for catching Osama bin Laden, the troops level should increase in that area, which the U.S. is able to finance if it forfeits some of its obligations in Iraq. Focusing on the Afghan, flushing out the terrorists had been Obama s campaign promise and what the people voted for. The question is not ‘whether’ but ‘how’ to keep the posts.
There are reasons that the U.S. troops are in that region ‘“ because of the threats of heightened terrorists activities that affected the well-being of U.S. citizens. At the same time, as Taliban promised retaliation to either war or peace, a victory over the Taliban may mean the utter obliteration of the group. Is this considered a form of genocide? Should the U.S. intend to integrate such vile forces into the realm of humanity and reason that the rest of the world abide by?
This war must be fought, but this war must not be fought alone. Whereas international support had dwindled in the wake of the Iraq War, the effects of terrorist activities had been shown to affect many more countries. The subway bombing in London, hotel bombings in Madrid, there were also a number of failed attempts at other parts of the world. These terrorists are not given up producing terror, and the international community is affected. Whereas the International community might not have supported the Iraq War, as unwilling as they might have been from memory, it is important to garner their support and allow the international community to attempt to solve the terrorist problem together.
Is this Vietnam? No it is not. Should the War in Afghanistan be won? It must. It should be won by abandoning a victory in Iraq and concentrating on the reason, with the support of the international community to obliterate terror. What a daunting task it is, especially from the current starting point, but I believe that it must be won.
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