U.N. May Have to Abandon Afghan Effort

This does not bode well for Afghanistan's future:

The United Nations may be forced to abandon its two-year
effort to stabilize Afghanistan because of rising violence blamed on
the resurgent Taliban, its top official here warned Friday in an
interview with The Associated Press.
Lakhdar Brahimi said his team could not continue its work unless
security improves. He called for more foreign troops to halt attacks
that have killed at least 11 aid workers across the south and east
since March.
"Countries that are committed to supporting Afghanistan cannot kid
themselves and cannot go on expecting us to work in unacceptable
security conditions," Brahimi said.
"They seem to think that our presence is important here. Well, if they
do, they have got to make sure that the conditions for us to be here
are there," he said. "If not, we will go away."

If the UN pulls out of Afghanistan it will effectively isolate US
forces in that country. So far terrorists (or whatever you want to call
them) have successfully driven the UN, the Red Cross, and the South
Koreans out of Iraq and if they manage to do the same in Afghanistan it
will be a huge blow to the War on Terra. If the Bush Cabal has any
sense they'll bend over backwards to ensure a UN commitment to getting
Afghanistan up and running.
Of course, if the Bush Cabal had any sense the ratio of countries
destroyed to countries rebuilt would be a whole lot closer to 1 by now.

Posted by flow Frazao on December 12, 2003 at 12:03 PM | Permalink