AFGHAN ANGUISH - Category:Christian_Conservative_News
AFGHAN ANGUISH
AFGHAN ANGUISH
Religious Experts See a Failing Warfront for U.S.
Looking into the marathon war still raging in the Afghan theater—now the longest military engagement for the U.S. in its history, having just surpassed Viet Nam—many Americans are troubled by what appears to be a noble fight that has gone off the rails.
Though, at this point, it seems so long ago, most still recall that America’s cause for the invasion of Afghanistan was a response to the 9/11 attacks, and its goal to defeat al Qaida and hunt down Osama bin Laden. But James Standish, deputy secretary general of the International Religious Liberty Association, is one of those observers who see a war being fought today with less than a clear objective.
Military experts are seeing another U.S. attempt at nation building, in a particular corner of the world populated by a factious, tribal culture where such an endeavor just will not take.
Standish’s concerns are more tactical, specific and immediate—an anguish over the increasing evidence that, with respect to a ruling Afghan authority, the U.S. only has a choice of the lesser of two evils. Obviously, the brutal Muslim-theocratic Taliban is out of the question. So, the result has been a makeshift band of corrupt, self-serving governors with track records of abusing their own people.
If the U.S. is going to remain in this fight, the vision must become more clear and succinct again.
“Human rights should be forefront of our objectives in Afghanistan,” says Standish. “And they aren't right now. Can we even ‘win’ a war when the government we created systematically, deliberately and egregiously violates the fundamental human rights of their populace?”
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