Masopher's Mind

A statement so flawed that it, like many other “news items”, is scarcely worth my time. But I’ll rant for a bit because I am glad to see the current successes of Operation Moshtarak and hope for much more. That is the way that wars are ended by achieving goals.

In 2007 an Irishman called Michael Semple was thrown out of Afghanistan when the Kharzai government found out he was talking to the Taliban, trying to broker a deal between the British government and the second tier or Pashtun warriors. While Mullah Oman and his cohorts are considered to be official enemies, beyond conversation Britain planned to undercut the Talibans leadership and in fact undercut the Kharzai government by dealing with the men with real power in Pashtunistan.

This didn’t work because the real Taliban and real mujahadeen gave them the same answer they gave the Soviets. They will not stop fighting until every NATO troop leaves in either body bags or C130s (or Antanovs etc.) I spoke on this as well; there is no talking to the Taliban, they want to mistreat women, kill infidels, harbour murderous jihadis, sell opium, run a backward society and they want the world to be run the same way. There is no compromise with right and wrong.

News media talk about perceptions as if they are divorced from the bad perception NATO has. Ever dead soldier becomes a newsflash every coward and whimpering simpleton becomes a news story. In the Pacific, and on the French shore and countryside hundred of thousands of young men died fighting a war that they were thrown into and they received our support. Now a few hundred die and the pusillanimous  voices that have been allowed to grow too loud want to “talk” because the “Taliban” are seen to be winning. They are seen to be winning because the press actively makes it look that way. This is done easily by promoting the nay sayers highlighting the faults, overshadowing the supporters and ignoring the successes.

Talking is a defeat firstly because it it works it confirms that the Taliban are already gone, because the Taliban don’t talk. If it doesn’t then it is just another defeat for the United States not only against extreme idealism but against the liberal pinko press.

If simple tenants such as the use of force can no longer be used by modern governments then other governments and ideologies who can act without the restraints of its soft headed, self-doubting, self-destructive media will begin to lead the world down very dark and confusing paths.

The darkness and confusion is already present. Three years ago,talking was off the table, now it is back on the table and with gusto. The media is allowed to guesstimate and exaggerate based on reports from Afghani commanders instead of their own countrymen. Withdrawing in disgrace from another inferiorly armed country has become not only an option but a standard and signature maneuver. Helplessness to the “power” of China is a theme played out while we demand the inferior and entirely disposable products it produces. The communist tenants of equality stark against the real inequality and poverty is what these “intelligent” people hope for. They are not seeking equality, they are hoping that instead of a society run by manufacturers of wealth, producers of goods and forgers of new paths, the society will be run by soft headed thinkers of grand ideas and ignorers of reality. They are seeking a society ruled by themselves.