Select Afghanistan Policy Issues 2009: The Domestic Perspective

 The United States has two fundamental issues with Afghanistan. One is to deny it as a base for terrorist training, and the other is to accomplish the first without doing harm to the U.S. economy through adding vast new public debt.Seemingly high-country military garrisons in Afghanistan supplied by air and reinforced by Air Power could deny the U.S. of Afghanistan as a secure place for terrorist training the next half century for a modest annual cost.

 Another issue is the question of could Afghanistan become a nation with enough cash income to afford a western style central government and military, or would it always be just a prop financed by the west borrowing money from the east? What role can the U.S. play in converting Afghanistan to a western style democratic government and economy when corporatism has already corrupted the U.S. economy and too much sucks up to Muslim oil interests? Would the U.S. corporate elite and Harvard M.B.A.’s consider Afghanistan as a place for cheap labor to assemble widgets for Wal-Marts of Wyoming? Would they teach the Afghans how to be independent small businesspersons and give them small business loans?

 U.S. policy planners seem to have little ability and creating multi-disciplinary economic improvement teams capable of significantly reforming a second or third world economy on a sustainable ecological basis. While Afghanistan might be such a place to try such a venture, it would need to add the complicating factor into the equation of the requirement that ever project be hardened to withstand expected terrorist attack and strong-arm bullying by corrupt political and para-military elements. That sort of planning makes selection of physical civil engineering projects more important if cultural changes in the direction of renewable prosperity are to be attained. The U.S. Government shows very little competence at cost-effect social intervention not only in foreign nations but in the United States as well, perhaps because of unrealistic political philosophies based on incompetent micro-and macro-economic philosophy. The failure to construct a comprehensive public health service for the poor in the United States is most notable. A prosperous democracy should assure that the poor are healthy and able to compete in the economy in order to not be tramped down by the jack boots of the rich and strong.

 The Obama administration may choose to give General McCrystal the reinforcement he wants or not. The cost financially to the United States is quite high. We hope that the leadership exercises wit in reasoning about how to keep down costs and accomplish the important mission of safeguarding global corporate and Pentagon headquarters in the United States.

 If the people of Iraq can be given real shares in some publicly created oil corporation from which they directly receive royalties rather than through government hand outs by corrupt politicians then the people of Iraq will yet still better defend the security of that nation. If so more quickly the U.S. Government cold transfer 25,000 troops and combat engineers to Afghanistan from Iraq. Iraq is the place of the oldest civilization on Earth, they will definitely reform a stable government in time. We should build some good concrete monolithic does there to add to future archaeologists structures of interest to go along with those of ziggurats and so forth.

 It is plain that the United States is compelled to deny use of Afghanistan to terrorists seeking to make it a base for global attacks on western social and economic interests. It is also not plain that the corporatist and western military approach to problem solving in such places is effective. The time tensor of military and social culture support required to pacify Afghanistan until the issue rots way through time may require a redundant line of extremely secure physical fortresses as low key overlook points on Afghan while amidst the people cultural and military affairs also are time-structured for multi-dimensional initiatives. When the people of Afghanistan reach an age of moral accountability in regard to the right to life of the people and economic philosophy of democrats of the west, then the U.S. Afghan security earthworks hill castles and monitoring posts might be demolished with deep mountains of high explosives, finally converting to rubble the entire half century-expending enterprise that denied so many good times to oppressed people of the world that could have used the money better than the protracted Afghan conflict.