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Michael J. Totten
Get Ready for the Next War
5 November 2012
In March of 2001, the Taliban used anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank missiles, artillery cannons, and dynamite to obliterate enormous ancient Buddha statues carved into the cliffsides at Bamiyan. The statues were monuments to heresy, the Taliban said, and therefore must be destroyed.
Ill never forget how a friend of mine in Oregon reacted. We have to invade, he said.
I thought he was nuts. Invade a country in the ***-end of nowhere over cultural vandalism?
If theyll destroy harmless statues, he said, theyll destroy anything and anyone. So theyre a threat to everything and everyone. Just wait. Youll see.
Hes not a foreign policy professional nor a military historian. Hes just a concerned American citizen who had a very bad feeling about Afghanistans tyrannical overlords.
Six months later, the worst attack against the United States in American history came out of Afghanistan. The longest war in American history followed.
Now Mali, a West African country that straddles the Sahara and the transitionary Sahel region, is shaping up to be the next Afghanistan...
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Michael J. Totten
Get Ready for the Next War
5 November 2012
In March of 2001, the Taliban used anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank missiles, artillery cannons, and dynamite to obliterate enormous ancient Buddha statues carved into the cliffsides at Bamiyan. The statues were monuments to heresy, the Taliban said, and therefore must be destroyed.
Ill never forget how a friend of mine in Oregon reacted. We have to invade, he said.
I thought he was nuts. Invade a country in the ***-end of nowhere over cultural vandalism?
If theyll destroy harmless statues, he said, theyll destroy anything and anyone. So theyre a threat to everything and everyone. Just wait. Youll see.
Hes not a foreign policy professional nor a military historian. Hes just a concerned American citizen who had a very bad feeling about Afghanistans tyrannical overlords.
Six months later, the worst attack against the United States in American history came out of Afghanistan. The longest war in American history followed.
Now Mali, a West African country that straddles the Sahara and the transitionary Sahel region, is shaping up to be the next Afghanistan...
Read the rest! link
