Nation Building in Troubled Waters - I

Marshall plan is synonymous to successful nation building after a war. Patronized by Uncle Sam many times..over and over again..Germany after WWII, Japan after Hiroshima and in the recent years in the Balkans, Fiji and other relatively unknown places. I wish the non-existent god came in Bush's dreams to remind him to also focus on nation building post Afghan and Iraq invasion.

I dont understand why Clinton was impeached and Bush, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney and Co. are not being considered. What Bill did was quite natural..what most people in the world do..he didnt screw an entire nation..just another person who happened to not be his wife and he was pulled to the court...and the other team did so much damage to their own country and screwed their people's happiness (apart from people in other countries), they ought be tried and prisoned..perhaps at Guantanamo hehehe before they close it down. How would you feel if foreign soldiers are patrolling your streets, sometimes killing innocent people and not dont care a shit of setting things right ? I am of course all for the war on terror and appreciate what NATO and US intentions..but if they ignore the fact that its their responsibility of setting things right..what the fuck..I dont simply get it.

This is Deja Vu..really..towards the end of the cold war and after the Soviets pulled out of Afghan, US simple pulled out ignoring they had to set things right there. They paid tons of money(literally) to anybody who would fight against USSR...thus came Taliban. After the war they simply packed bags and went off leaving the troubled nation in rags. A total vacuum. Somebody had to fill in. Yes, you guessed it..it was Taliban. Of course there are factions within the Afghan province (Pashtun, Hazara, Tajiks, Uzbeks etc.) that each faction controlled by its own warlord had a cooked up a perfect recipe of disaster. Dont forget, now enters the other important characters..ISI, Pak army which covertly and sometimes overtly nurtured these extremist groups with the strategic interests of using them when time comes. They are the real kingmakers. Hats off to them for that.

Circa 2003, we see a repeat. Some people dont want to learn from past mistakes. Rumsfeld had one main aim in his life..Al-Qaeda...and leave nation building to the other insignificant groups. Time and again the hopeful Afghan ruling faction (Hamid Karzai) would plead Washington to do something, but they would give a deaf ear. While Musharaff took them for a ride, they did nothing.

// more to come later..

P.S Of course things are a little different now. Will talk about it towards the later editions.