Predicament of Afghanistan:
Beneath the surface lies a complex “cat and mouse game” being played out amongst the tribal leaders and the Taliban as well as the Al-Qaida leaders. Perhaps unbeknownst to the top commanders in our US military forces, these tribal leaders have behind closed-door on-going deals with some of the Taliban and Al-Qaida leaders if not all of them, whereby these opposition leaders are paid in some form and manner for their cooperation with the tribal leaders. In the underpinnings of such arrangements – the tribal leaders and the opposition forces benefit and that is very much due to the taxpayers’ dollars spent in that region to pay for such collusive agreements (military war spending budget). Obviously our government and our US military do not have access to such information of the arrangements made between the tribal leaders and these militants.
It is such a predicament for our US military to be lured into and caught up in this massive cat and mouse game without their approval or their knowledge. Much information fed to our US forces has little and or no real value except on the surface it looks like valuable and results producing information. For example, when a batch of militants in some target zone are captured by our soldiers – these are the ones set up for the sacrifice – they are usually new fresh recruits of the opposition forces or sometimes the more expandable older ones as well who prove to be of no real value any longer to the Taliban or the Al-Qaida for whatever reason.
This is a typical collusive game being played out whereby the tribal leader makes an agreement with the Taliban leader or the AL-Qaida leader that for their share of funds, they need to sacrifice a group of their forces for the slaughterhouse to make the US forces believe that the tribal leader is doing his job for the US Government under the guise of his cooperative effort. In such an instance, most new recruits are set up to be targeted by the US forces. This information is then given to our US military that will send troops to a certain location to attack and kill or capture these militants. Naturedly these sacrificial recruits of the opposition militants are not in the loop about such arrangements being made amongst their Taliban or Al-Qaida leader and the tribal leader believed to be working in favor of our US military.
The losers in this game are of course the unknowing militant opposition forces set up for the slaughter when necessary, so the leaders in the Taliban and the Al-Qaida groups can be paid their share of funds needed to maintain their existence and continued recruitment of new recruits. These funds are paid through the tribal leaders to them without the knowledge of our US commanders or their support counterparts (the lower rung of the command chain). Our commanders are often told by the tribal leaders that funds are needed for their continued cooperation and support of our US forces and the delivery of valuable information (e.g. where the next hot bed of Taliban or Al-Qaida forces is situated, ready to be infiltrated and targeted).
This in itself becomes an unending war which locks the US military in that region for countless years, whilst feeding these tribal leaders who are supposedly working with our government to squash the opposition forces and the ever growing terrorism in that region.
So the key question remains – How do we end this madness and the waste of taxpayers’ dollars?
The next question for debate would be – perhaps to try and resolve this area – the tribal leaders should be the ones to be looked at much more intensely for their every move and communication. They should be watched very closely to see which ones are in this game and if they all are – just how involved are they with the opposition militant leaders? Then the next question to address would be – how truly dependable are the inside “local spies” used by our US forces effective in gathering True information versus what is fed to them as well?
Obviously, if the US government cuts off the monetary supply chain – then the tribal leaders stop their so-called cooperation and work to eradicate our forces instead (working in hand with the Taliban and Al-Qaida) which brings us back to step one of no real progress in that region.
It is an extreme disadvantage for our US military befriending a possible enemy, making compromises in hopes of real progress in that region. They do not have the upper hand to resolve and end this war, nor the real power to control and end the cat and mouse game being played under their noses!
Though however, the current efforts expanded in that region that does show promise and progress with taxpayers’ funds is the rebuilding of their infrastructure and the community services for the people of that region. This move by our US government and their global counterparts as active participants to rebuild Afghanistan does encourage the citizens of Afghanistan to have renewed hopes for their war torn birth land.
Their children might have a chance to see a new Afghanistan and perhaps have a new mindset of how life should be in that region versus how it is now. In doing so and given a chance, a younger generation could emerge to proactively work with their government to eradicate the terrorism mentality that currently exists in their society and permeating every aspect of their daily lives.
In summary, this could be a reality if the global community cares enough to expand the needed and continued efforts to see this through for the people of Afghanistan. This will definitely be a big leap in the direction of squashing out the terrorism at best in that region, but if not, possibly keeping it in a containable situation where fewer lives are taken and innocent civilians are protected from such destruction. On a positive note, the younger generation might see other ways to exist then to maintain a terroristic mentality and to continue to support such destructive factions in the region.
