Comments on: Afghanistan, seen from Berlin http://fistfulofeuros.net/afem/europe-and-the-world-2/afghanistan-seen-from-berlin/ European Opinion Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:32:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Craig http://fistfulofeuros.net/afem/europe-and-the-world-2/afghanistan-seen-from-berlin/#comment-17406 Craig Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:05:55 +0000 http://fistfulofeuros.net/afem/europe-and-the-world/afghanistan-seen-from-berlin#comment-17406 Do people *really* think a permanent commitment to Afghanistan is a good idea? The place is like Haiti, or Somalia, or Congo or any number of places who for structural or geographic reasons have an anarchic character to them. It seems like the sort of open-ended commitment with underspecified goals (words like "democracy", "stability" and "not the Taliban" aren't really good enough) which will bite NATO in the ass 10 years from now. Do people *really* think a permanent commitment to Afghanistan is a good idea? The place is like Haiti, or Somalia, or Congo or any number of places who for structural or geographic reasons have an anarchic character to them.

It seems like the sort of open-ended commitment with underspecified goals (words like “democracy”, “stability” and “not the Taliban” aren’t really good enough) which will bite NATO in the ass 10 years from now.

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