Edmonton Sun | 25Feb2010 | Orest Slepokura
Why not pessimism?
"It's easy to see why there's so much optimism about Afghanistan," says
Andrew Hanon in "Taliban insurgents wilt in face of coalition troops,"
Edmonton Sun, Feb. 22, 2010.
Surely the opposite could just as easily be true? So far, dozens of
Afghan civilians have either been killed or injured by NATO's offensive
against Marjah. The Dutch parliament has voted to withdraw its force of
2,000 troops from Afghanistan. And Taliban chief Mullah Omar and
al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden still remain defiantly at large some
nine years after the U.S. invaded, while Hamid Karzai, the
NATO-friendly Afghan president, is now a much-diminished figure
following a stolen election
Orest Slepokura
(The intent and some
outcomes are good, but not all.)