"Losing Afghanistan", é o título de um editorial do The New York Times de ontem, que vale a pena ler. Sublinha um ponto que eu venho martelando desde 2003 : que ao desviar a acção para o Iraque, sem deixar que se apanhasse Bin Laden e se investisse a sério na governação democrática e na reconstrução do Afeganistão, a Administração Bush estava condenada (e condenava o mundo) a dar argumentos, terreno e recrutas ao terrorismo internacional.
Transcrevo dois parágrafos:
"Nearly five years after American military forces help topple a Taliban government that provided sanctuary and training camps to Osama bin Laden, there is no victory in the war for Afghanistan, due in significant measure to the Bush administration's reckless haste to move on to Iraq and shortsighted stinting on economic reconstruction."
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"Americans are coming to see the war in Iraq as something apart from the war against 9/11-style terrorism - and a distraction from it. The war in Afghanistan has always been an essential part of that larger struggle. That makes it a war that America simply cannot afford to lose".
