Lets talk political
From a kid who grew up in the midst of poverty and war into a journey of unconventional playground-my life is a trail of unforgotten tragedy and epic of solitude. It has been sinuous of hope as well as illumination of courage. Perhaps you would say it’s a refined story of success as well as the barriers of adversity. Some may argue that my circumstances would have been different if it hadn’t been the rivalry between the Soviet Union regimes and the power hungry America. But then again, I am a man of faith who believes and knows that everything is scripted before his origins. Thus I’ve little to be grave about, and will genuinely admit that I’ve a great a deal of love for America. In spite of racial occurrence and view nights of police harassment- I remain Loyal and Liberty has offered me the opportunity and the freedom to pursuit my dreams. Through the wall of free education I’ve learned the value of fairness and honor, all without a cost. Having said that, I want to be political for once and question the integrity of this nation.
Recently I’ve learned that the white House is working on a budget to send more troops in Afghanistan, “a damning confidential report by the American commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan has warned that the war is likely to “result in failure” within a year for the West without urgent reinforcements. Although Gordon Brown turned down a previous recommendation for an increase from the service chiefs, backed by the then defence secretary John Hutton, the Cabinet is now said to be ready to back the reinforcements. The size of the Afghan army would also be raised from 92,000 to 240,000 and the police from 82,000 to 160,000 by 2012” (The Independent, Tuesday, 22 September 2009).
“I don’t have any real expertise on Afghanistan, but I do think it would be morally wrong simply to abandon the Afghanis when they have wished for our help. However, that help does not have to be of a military nature.”If America is really concerned about Al-Qaida, and Taliban building a secret haven why are they not pushing any Military agenda for Somalia? “Somalia has been a safe haven for Al-Qaeda ever since the U.S. military pulled out of the country following the infamous Black Hawk Down firefight,” reported CBS’s David Martin (1/10/07). CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr made the stakes clear, reporting ominously (1/6/07), “Today, here in East Africa, the concern remains that unless Somalia is shut down as a terrorist safe haven, the threat of another attack remains very real.”
So far Somalia remains shaded out of the Western military action, and over the last two years, Somalia’s Islamists—now more radical than ever—have regrouped and roared from every angle of Muqdisho. In 2008 Chicago Tribune reported “On a single day, they flexed their muscles by killing nearly 30 people in a spate of bloody car-bomb attacks that recalled the darkest days of Iraq. And their brutal militia, the Shabab or “Youth,” today controls much of the destitute nation, a shattered but strategic country that overlooks the vital oil-shipping lanes of the Gulf of Aden.
“Somalia is one of the great unrecognized U.S. policy failures since 9/11,” said Ken Menkhaus, a leading Somalia scholar at Davidson College in North Carolina. “By any rational metric, what we’ve ended up with there today is the opposite of what we wanted.” Now my questions where is the military action for somalia? Or is America interested in soil of Afghanistan?
