Dear Wizer,
Afghanistan.
Signed,
Incredulous
Dear Incredulous, Your Wizer doesn't usually delve into foreign policy. The previous --oh--20 or so administrations have made such a mess of things that parsing it all out is not a practical goal. However, it does have a bearing on our reasonable expectation for personal safety, so I will say this about Afghanistan. This is a people whose biggest goal was getiing to the camel market before sundown. Now they see a bigger world. Where once their best weapons were scud missiles and box cutters, now there is a brave new world out there, with modern technology and cave making ordinance. Our administration wants them to be better organized now, with a central government, presumably so they can be coordinated in their contempt and ridicule of US citizens.
Whatever happened to leading by example? Why can't we just go about our business, and let the Aghanis and every other country on the planet organize in their own way? If we are a freedom loving people, we should love the Afghani's freedoms, and simply leave them alone. Theirs is a network of corruption that spans across the country. It's the way they prefer to work. We prefer to keep our corruptions in DC. Just because we don't like theirs it doesn't make me feel like I should go over there and play social engineer.
We go in there guns blazing like we're some sort of global SWAT team, and we wind up operating their friggin day care centers. Meanwhile, the ones who hate us have picked up a few new technologies to use against us. What WERE we thinking?
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