On the Politics of Afghanistan

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/08/201281765122731439.html

Still think we're winning?

Honestly, we never did learn the lesson of the UK and the IRA. The weak is always more effective and more powerful, in spite of the superior weapons and forces that are deployed against them, particularly when they have the home team advantage, and have the support from the population itself.

I don't think that the Taliban are going to be able to take over Afghanistan, to be honest. I don't think they're very popular, and there are enough weapons around for people to do something about it. That being said though, we're not winning any hearts and minds either with this abject failure to protect people, the implementation of an artificial system of government for Afghanistan, and the drone strikes that we've escalated under Obama to deal with the Taliban threat.

This is just me, speaking frankly.

And it's precisely this kind of stuff that our leadership won't listen to, doesn't want to listen to, and will do everything to keep it quiet and down, in spite of the stupidity of their own actions and their own choices.

This is how I know the elites are going to fail, ultimately.

Because they are so disconnected from reality as we live it that they will never make a good choice.

And when elections prove to be ineffective at bringing about the change that is needed.

People take to other methods to bring about the change themselves.

It's all happened before.

And it's all going to happen again.

And it's only in your brain that it's going to work out otherwise, if we keep it on the current course and current set of actions and policies.

Think about it.

Cause I know they're not really thinking effectively.

And it shows in the ways that they act, behave and make choices with regards to the rest of the world that's around them.

Silly.

Small.

Little brains.

Think about it.