Posted by
colorado springs citizen on Monday, May 26, 2008 10:45:02 AM
The major strategy outlines are definitely determined in Washington.
There, too, no clear ideas for a solution are apparent. In a recent
International Herald Tribune article, a bleak picture of the situation
was sketched. Are the Americans and NATO winning or are they, masked by
optimistic news of the moment, working on exhausting their forces in a
futile war? How long will it be before this country--under a strong
government—reaches an acceptable level of security? No one can predict
such with any degree of accuracy. When, under the successor to
President Bush, a new strategy is developed—whatever that might be—The
Hague will have no influence upon it. At the end of last year, The
Netherlands prematurely gave away the possibility of exerting some
influence by—without any conditions—committing to a military presence
in Uruzgan until the end of 2010. A submissive willingness, similar to
the support we gave to the Iraq war in 2003.