Mr. Matthew Hoh, a US diplomat posted in Afghanistan, resigned from his job claiming:
“We want to have some kind of governance there, and we have some obligation for it not to be a bloodbath.
“But you have to draw the line somewhere, and say this is their problem to solve.”
Their problem to solve?!
The United States attacked Afghanistan in a just war to root out the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, who, by the way, had attacked us on our soil. The Afghans hadn’t even attacked us – their government was harboring the people who attacked and wouldn’t give them up.
This problem can never be theirs. This problem was ours and will remain ours.
Now that that job has become tough, Hoh (and the Obama team) wants us to just quit and run away. This would be the second time we have left Afghanistan in tatters.
The last time we just quit Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal in the ’80s, Al Qaeda and the Taliban emerged to fill the power void. What will emerge this time?
This whole Hoh resignation bullshit just stinks of political manipulation.
