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Margolis on how to resolve Afghan conflict

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Eric Margolis: Only solution is a total withdrawal of foreign forces, regardless of consequences. Part 3

In part three of our interview with Eric Margolis, Eric talks to Senior Editor Paul Jay about his recent book, American Raj, and the future of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He believes the only way the people of Afghanistan can start rebuilding their country is if the foreign forces pull out. Jay challenges this notion as well as the current US/NATO policies. Margolis says Pakistan is now bankrupt . Eric believes that corruption and bad management alongside social unrest and the threat of an American invasion are contributing to an uncertain future for Pakistan.

Eric Margolis is a journalist born in New York City and holding degrees from Georgetown the University of Geneva, and New York University. During the Vietnam War he served as a US Army infantryman. Margolis is the author of War at the Top of the World –- The Struggle for Afghanistan and Asia is a syndicated columnist and broadcaster whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, Mainichi Shimbun and US Naval Institute Proceedings. Margolis is an expert of military affairs, a former instructor in strategy and tactics in the US Army, and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the Institute of Regional Studies in Islamabad, Pakistan. Eric Margolis' books have been published in the US, Canada, Britain, and India. He often appears and contributes to national and international news items for outlets such as CNN, ABC,CBC and Voice of America to the Wall Street Journal and Maninichi-Tokyo. He broadcasts regularly on foreign affairs for Canadian TV (TV Ontario and CBC), radio, and has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN, and PBS.

See Part 1 at: http://current.com/items/89517897/obama_s_foreign_policy_challenge.htm

See Part 2 at: http://current.com/items/89520249/the_war_without_an_objective.htm

See Part 4 at: http://current.com/items/89552586/what_does_the_west_owe_afghanistan.htm
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3 comments // Margolis on how to resolve Afghan conflict

  • AveryMoore
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      AveryMoore  

    • Mr Jay introduces a very odd mixture of gross paternalism - we mustn't leave these helpless "ordinary" Afghans the way they are, e.g. "unmodern' - with ironic vapidity - so, to ensure that ordinary Afghans one day are freer we'll just keep bombing them until ---

      Until what?

      Margolis is right. We aren't bombing Saudi villages because we expect them to respect gender equality or build shopping malls, anywhere else on earth

      If we still regard Killing For Jesus as absurd then it is equally ludicrous to bomb populations to improve Female Education and stimulate an accelerated pace of Modernization in a bankrupt state..

      I think Mr Jay made an ass of himself on this one.

    • 3 years ago
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  • pokesmot
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      pokesmot  

    • It sounds like the right thing to do as long as someone doesn't give the Taliban all the money they need to overthrow the government.

    • 3 years ago
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