National Insecurity Questions That Won’t Be Asked in the Presidential Debates

How Bad Will Things Get in Afghanistan?

National Insecurity Questions That Won’t Be Asked in the Presidential Debates

by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY. Counterpunch

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/08/national-insecurity-questions-that-wont-be-asked-in-the-presidential-debates/

For reasons that were quite clear well before the Afghan “surge” began (see here and here), America’s Afghan adventure is now ending without achieving its goals. The prospects for a civil life in Afghanistan are likely to become even more remote than they were before we intervened.  Indeed, some experts think the ground work has been laid for an even more destructive civil war than that which occurred after the Soviets left Afghanistan with their tail between their legs in 1989.  Only time will tell how bad things will be, but it is a virtual certainty that events will be ugly and murderous.