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Today there are two generations of men whose only job they knew was soldier or a related job like spy and police officer.  The US is unintentionally supplying both sides of the war.  Individual Taliban soldiers are hired to join the government’s side.  Imagine if drug dealers in this country were told to quit and if they did they would get a new job as police officers. 

Now let's suppose that Obama would announce a rapid time table to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, it would be likely perhaps on the same day for at least one woman to start crying to a Western reporter that she doesn't want to wear a burka if the Taliban moves in and beg the reporter to take her with him when he leaves the country, others who were more relieved that the war was over would take a skilled pollster to locate.

The post-withdrawal future for Afghans need not be so desolate. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a powerful Taliban supporting warlord goon, announced plans for a power-sharing government as the US leaves; and Afghan President Karzai personably began negotiating with his representative.  Even before Hekmatyar’s representative met Karzai the US media criticized Karzai for corruption and for his praise of Iran. No one noticed that Karzai had also lavishly praised the Chinese government while begging for Chinese help in trying to negotiate an end to the war. He also begged Saudi Arabia to be a mediator between him and the Taliban. 

These three men are all avoiding mayhem.  Any one of them could be replaced by a hot head; and conditions could deteriorate rapidly.  If a hot head replaces Mullah Omar and US soldiers were fired upon at night, or off duty, or come across farmers begging for help or looking like they desperately need it, and it turned out to be a booby-trapped decoy, American soldiers would be shooting first and asking questions later no matter what General McChrystal ordered.

So its time for the U.S. to get out, but this will only happen if those that lobby for US withdrawal will admit that US getting out will not necessarily mean the war is over. 

The US has a knack for spending like we are in a real war to end all wars, even though people are dying like it was a skirmish.  Currency collapse from endless war could even mean starvation for today’s middle class. 

If the war instead of ending because of Obama, ended because Kucinich’s end funding bill was voted for in a period of panic, such as the euo looking like it would totally collapse, and the dollar could conceivably fall with it, Kucinich would be called a hypocrite on human rights the first time a non-burkered women begged for help. 

For more details, please google the original, “No Way Out of Afghan War, (unless the US faces up to grim choices)” “Peacemaker Afghan President Karzai needs help from the Peace Community”

By Richard Kane, RichardKanePA.blogspot.com