NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen claimed on Wednesday that the alliances members were coming to an agreement on concrete plans for what their role in Afghanistan will be in 2015 and beyond.
“I am very pleased that a number of allies announced today concrete financial contributions to Afghan security forces in the future,” he told a news conference after a meeting of NATO allies in Brussels.
The Afghan government will completely collapse unless exorbitant Western aid constantly flows in. Indeed, President Hamid Karzai recently said the U.S. will need to pay $2 billion dollars per year to maintain a presence in the country, which will be significant, despite talk of “withdrawal.”
The nation-building project in Afghanistan has been such an abject failure that former NATO Commander General Egon Ramms said this week the 2014 withdrawal will be “hardly manageable,” as a logistical and security feat, but also in terms of the failure of the mission.
The devil is in the detail, as they say. Look at what Fogh actually said. A "number" of allies will make a "financial" contribution. English translation: a few NATO countries will put up a limited amount of money, but no troops. As Mr Glaser says, abject failure.
But of course, what else do you expect from a psychopath? Admission of defeat? Guilt? Recognition of their mistake?
Charity begins at home, and so does nation building.
We’re going to do nation building in Afghanistan like we did in Iraq? How ridiculous.