US ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker today promised that America will redouble her efforts to do whatever it is they still think they're accomplishing over there.
Crocker apparently thinks that involves creating a climate wherein the Taliban and al Qaeda won't move in when the US moves out. Given that the US has already promised to leave by the end of 2014, at which point the Taliban will effectively be handed the country, it's hard to see what difference a couple of years is going to make. If we haven't "won" Afghanistan in the last ten years we're not going to win it in the next two.
ISAF allies France and Germany have meanwhile pulled all civilian personnel out of the country, citing the climate of extreme hostility created by the Koran burning fiasco.
And even America's allies in the Arab world are strongly suggesting that it's time to fold the tent. Here's what Dubai based Gulf News has to say;
The apologies pouring out of the US make very little difference. The same apologies are heard after every slaughter of innocent civilians in drone attacks. They simply indicate that the NATO force has lost any legitimacy it might have had at the start, and needs to leave Afghanistan.
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