Have Americans lost in Afghanistan?

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Re: Have Americans lost in Afghanistan?

@Ali_Syed

An end to illusion - FT.com
Among other flaws, it was the ignorance of local realities that led to the failure of the western project in Afghanistan

The western project in Afghanistan is now well and truly over. This support for compromise within Afghanistan, however, sits uneasily alongside his continuing demand that Pakistan destroy without compromise Afghan and Pakistani militants on its own soil. Similarly, while Rashid criticises US policies as ill-thought-out, he demands that Pakistan give them its full support.

Yet in fact, by Pakistani standards (rather than idealised western ones) the Zardari administration has some limited but real achievements to its credit. It has brought about modest improvements in revenue collection; and passed, through democratic compromise, very difficult reforms rebalancing revenues between Pakistan’s provinces and devolving powers from the central government to the provinces. Pakistani democracy too, with all its faults, does give the chance for public frustration to vent itself without revolution – something that makes Pakistan very different from the Middle Eastern autocracies overthrown in the “Arab Spring”.

Without pakistan military and slavish government the United states would have been finished many years ago on the afghan battleground, this author has no sense of reality what more does he want from pakistan they have spent $70 billion on someone elses war, lost 35,000 lives in process what else does this buffoon want?

as for democracy its is a funny word with no meaning pakistan has had democracy and what has it done for past 50 years… the silence is deafening

compare it to a nation like china which doesn’t fall for cheap foolish western slogans which worth nothing and doesn’t put food into belly of the poor people it has progressed to a much more advanced and greater level than pakistan.