I just read an article from the Huffington Post stating that Afghanistan is poised to become Donald Trump's first foreign policy "disaster". It's an amazing article which laments, in advance, the Trump policy for Afghanistan. Most amazing is that the article admits that it doesn't know what Trump will do in Afghanistan. One does wonder how the author knows that we will witness a disaster if he doesn't know what is planned.
There's also a major change to the view of Afghanistan by the left which this article illustrates. In order to point out the perils for Trump in Afghanistan, the reporter chronicles the failures of both the American and Afghan governments across the country. The Taliban is resurgent and there are very few American troops to prevent the Taliban from reasserting the control that they lost in 2001. Area after area is becoming more dangerous. The Afghans who relied on the USA to protect them from the Taliban are being put at risk each day to a greater extent. A rather bleak picture is painted of conditions across Afghanistan. Then the reporter moves on to what Trump will do, and what is his biggest point? This reporter laments that Trump may lose all of the gains that we have made in Afghanistan. That's right; things are terrible and getting worse, and Trump, that amateur, may lose our past gains. A rational and honest reporter might have pointed out the full extent of the destruction wrought by the Obama policy for Afghanistan. That doesn't happen in the HuffPo, though.
It seems as if we are about to go from virtual silence regarding Afghanistan on the left to a full scale assault on the new administration on the basis of the faults of Obama.
So what else is new?
There's also a major change to the view of Afghanistan by the left which this article illustrates. In order to point out the perils for Trump in Afghanistan, the reporter chronicles the failures of both the American and Afghan governments across the country. The Taliban is resurgent and there are very few American troops to prevent the Taliban from reasserting the control that they lost in 2001. Area after area is becoming more dangerous. The Afghans who relied on the USA to protect them from the Taliban are being put at risk each day to a greater extent. A rather bleak picture is painted of conditions across Afghanistan. Then the reporter moves on to what Trump will do, and what is his biggest point? This reporter laments that Trump may lose all of the gains that we have made in Afghanistan. That's right; things are terrible and getting worse, and Trump, that amateur, may lose our past gains. A rational and honest reporter might have pointed out the full extent of the destruction wrought by the Obama policy for Afghanistan. That doesn't happen in the HuffPo, though.
It seems as if we are about to go from virtual silence regarding Afghanistan on the left to a full scale assault on the new administration on the basis of the faults of Obama.
So what else is new?
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