Reply #56: Afghanistan is not my model. The US got the gov't they want

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in Afghanistan, and they have no interest in stabilizing Afghanistan except for a few blocks in downtown Kabul. And the violence in Kabul is a product of the fact that everyone knows that Karzai is Bush's man.

And AGAIN, I'm not predicting what will happen. I'm saying what needs to happen. My operating premise is that this is fantasy baseball.

To be blunt: the cause of the violence is America's imperial ambitions. If you don't advocate a program that removes imperialism, you're not going to eliminate violent resistance.

And therefore, I ask you a similar question: why engage in the fantasy that insurgency will end with a Sistani gov't and a US trained police force and army? You must know it's not going to change a damn thing.

Every post-colonial country in the world is a chaotic mess, puppet governments and "indigenous" armies and police forces notwithstanding -- in fact those things are the cause of the mess. The US is modeling Iraq on failures. This is what they want. They don't care how much friction there is, so long as profits flow to Texas.

And, btw, you haven't convinced me that a lot of EU, African, SA, and Asian countries wouldn't get involved in a multinational transitional force.