like he waged war.
Waging the peace poorly is what got us into this situation, just lke it did with WWII.
The overly hands-off approach we took to Afghanistan after the defeat of the Soviets is what led to this.
Part of that was to not give the Sov's an excuse to go back in, claiming, as do some reactionary Russians today, that the whole Afghan thing of the 70s-80s was an American ploy to take Afghanistan for our selves.
We walked out, letting the extremists who fought so well and their backers, run rampant.
This is not terribly different, except for scale, of what we did after WWI.
I think America is uniquesly able to wage peace.
Whether via an internaitonal occupation, a UN transition, or an outright American occupation.
If we do this MacArthur/Marshall style, we can reshape a liberal Afghan, and infect the whole of the Middle East with societies that respect their citizens.
it is a noble and necessary duty.
Ed