Have Americans lost in Afghanistan?

[Ali_Syed]

Re: Have Americans lost in Afghanistan?

@Med911

Im no friend of the Taliban by any stretch of the imagination, but at some point we all have to come to the realization that this war is failing, and the inevitable will eventually happen.

All we can hope for is that the Taliban will have learned something from their last stint and allow for a modicum of human dignity, and Afghans in general will cooperate with each other instead of bombing each other.

History repeats itself.

Is all this positive spin from the good people at CENTCOM so different from the fall of Dhaka, or the dying days of Vietnam? Havent we all heard this before…

The biggest problem in the NATO (read American) strategy in Afghanistan is that most of the people in ANA are Tajiks and Uzbeks, with very few pashtuns. If the Americans leave Afghanistan in the present situation there will be a certain civil war which could divide Afghanistan into a pashtun South and Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara North. Any such division of Afghanistan on ethicity will spell problem from Pakistan too, as we could see a revival of the pashtunistan movement there. The best bet is to talk to the Afghan taleban and try to bring them in the mainstream (recent events during the past few weeks will haunt the efforts of any reconciliation) but there are not that many options left.