The Real Problem With Afghanistan

I read a very interesting article on the real problem with the war in Afghanistan by Fox News contributing Editor Wendell Goler. The problem that he speaks of is their government. The Afghani people just had a very pivotal election which unfortunately was riddled with allegations of fraud. So while everyone is trying to figure out how the election actually went down, President Obama has to wait see what happens before he can decide to send more troops over or not. This, in my mind is totally unacceptable. There are soldiers losing their lives over there every day do to the fact that they are spread so then and don’t have the back up they need. It really doesn’t help when Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s brother happens to be a local drug lord.
It’s extremely hard to get a country back on its feet while the top levels of its government keep kicking them out from under you. One thing I believe is that we will eventually whittle away the insurgency in Afghanistan. To make this easier though we need a local government that can handle itself and more U.S. boots on the ground. Without either of these we will be stuck in that part of the world for a very extended amount of time.