People could automatically assume that since we haven’t heard about Afghanistan that it is ok. The last thing I remember hearing about it is the elections and how people were stuffing ballots. As a debate student this is one of the topics I will be debating in the next few weeks. Ladies and gentlemen the Afghanistan economy and gov’t is going to hell once again. We call it the Afghan Cycle. Taliban is taking power once again and the president while not corrupt is incompetent(like a present president in the US). He is hiring warlords as advisors. Warlords are people whos soul idea is to kill everyone they hate. Time magazine went to state further that some warlords are connected to the taliban and al quada. We must protest this. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!! money was wasted on this project. Our money was wasted on this country that is just going back into turmoil. How could such a man waste our money to do something he would later ignore. I tell you that we are in trouble if this man thinks he can spend our money on a lost cause. I tell you that it is a lost cause because this man made it one. OUR PRESIDENT.
Have you read reeder yet ? You two should get along just fine.
Good luck on that debate…it needs some work.
Actually, no, he’s firing the warlords.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/23/afghan.cabinet.ap/index.html
First of all, its a good thing you have weeks to prepare. You may want to ask your teacher to explain the difference between a debate and a rant or a tirade.
Secondly, if your point is that Democracy in Afghanistan is doomed because Karzai deals with warlords I’ve got news for you. Everybody in Afghanistan has to deal with warlords. Even the Taliban held power in part by making deals with warlords. Also the warlords aren’t “people whos soul idea is to kill everyone they hate.” Their “soul idea” is to accumulate power and cash. Think Tony Soprano, not Charles Manson (Or Bin Laden.)
Yes, the idea that Afghanistan is going to magically turn into America lite, with a league of women voters and races for county council and school board, would be stupid, if anyone actually had that idea. Afghanistan is taking its first few stumbles towards something approximating democracy. It wont be a democracy like we understand it, but it will be a legitamate gov’t that doesn’t offer safe haven to Bin Laden.
The reason we went into Afghanistan was to root out the Base of Al queda, destroy a gov’t that harbored Al queda, and hopefully to capture Bin Laden and as many Al Queda honchos as possible. It hasn’t gone as well as could be hoped. But it’s something that had to be done, and it’s something Al Gore or John Kerry would have done as well, had they been president on 9/11/2001.
Unlike Iraq we didn’t go into Afghanistan with any idealistic hopes. Our goal was simple and achievable - smash Al queda’s bases there and crush the Taliban for having supported them. Right now the US armed forces are pretty much the single best armed tribe in Afghanistan. We simply are using overwhelming force to exercise a veto power over what faction is permitted to rule Afghanistan. If that’s all we ever achieve there, that’s acceptable. If “democracy” takes root, or more likely a semi-stable regime that’s not actively anti-western, so much the better but we’re not counting on it.