"The Western world figured out how to drive the German army out of Europe... if they can do that... there's something like ten or twenty thousand Taliban fighters essentially barefoot in the mountains with AKs... they can probably figure out how to win that fight. I think the problem isn't a military one in Afghanistan, I think it's a political problem in the countries of Europe and the United States."- Sebastian Junger, in conversation with Peter Robinson.
Monday 21 June 2010
That Afghan Mirror
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"...I think the problem isn't a military one in Afghanistan, I think it's a political problem in the countries of Europe and the United States."
ReplyDeleteSebastian is correct. Wars are no longer waged, rather, a bit of military muscle is flexed, while the politicians anxiously await their "scores" and cues from the media as to whether or not the muscle flexing has met politically correct diversity norms.
Yes, I quite agree - war is politics prosecuted by other means.
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