Mutungamiri wenyika vakatara huwandu hwemauto eUS muAfghanistan. For now.
Ndiwo mashandiro anoita escalation. Maseru anova uriri. Zvishoma nezvishoma.
Kashoma kubva mukudonha kwekupedzisira, timu yaObama yakayangarara nhamba dziri kukwira dzekuti vangani mamwe mauto eUS achatumirwa kuAfghanistan. Ikozvino, kutumirwa kwemakumi maviri nerimwe ezvimwe chibvumirano chakaitwa, paine huwandu hutsva hwemauto makumi matanhatu nesere eUS munyika iyoyo.
Asi "kukwira" haisi chirevowo zvacho. Uye hazvingorevi kune zviri kuitika kunze kweUnited States.
"Escalation" ishoko rekuita kwemaitiro ekuita kuti vanhu kumba kune pfungwa yekupindira kwemauto kunze kwenyika - hapana chakanyanya kuerekana, nhanho-nhanho nzira yekushandura yakawedzera hondo kuita media media - hapana chakanyanya kana chinotyisa. , nepo mamwe mauto ane zviuru uye mabhiriyoni emamwe madhora achipinda mune yakanzi naMartin Luther King Jr. "dhimoni rekusveta chubhu," yakazara nechisimba chikuru, mhirizhonga, kutya uye kuuraya zvakanyanya kupfuura nakare kose.
Sezvo mitemo yehondo ichienderera mberi, nhoroondo dzenhau uye nhaurirano huru dzenhau hadziwanzokanganisa mafambiro ezviitiko. Kubva kunzvimbo dzakakwirira, mwero wakatenderwa wekutaura chokwadi inyaya yenguva.
Zvakawanda zvichangoburwa kubva kuWashington zvakasimudzira fungidziro yekuti Mutungamiri Obama anoda kuomerera neazvino muganho wekuendeswa kuAfghanistan. Nguva pfupi mushure mekumanikidza mari yekuwedzera yehondo kuburikidza neCongress, haatomboda kuzivisa kuti 68,000 mauto eAmerica muAfghanistan anogona kunge asina kukwana mushure mezvose.
Asi hapana huwandu hwekutenderera hunogona kuchinja chokwadi chekuti mauto eUS muAfghanistan ari kuramba achiipa. Zvingave zvinokatyamadza kana zvirongwa zvekuwedzera-zvekutumirwa zvanga zvisati zvave kure nePentagon.
Zvichakadaro, iyo White House iri kuita zvekare tsika ye macabre - kudzokorodza kumanikidza nyika yehondo - kunyatsotora nguva uye kudonhedza imwe neimwe yeruzivo rweveruzhinji kurerutsa maitiro ekuwedzera. Iyo yekutanga tekinoroji iri kure nehutsva.
Muchirimo uye mukutanga kwezhizha ra1965, Mutungamiri Lyndon Johnson vakafunga kutumira mauto eUS zviuru zana kuVietnam, kudarika nhamba yakapetwa kaviri ikoko. Asi pamusangano wevatori venhau waChikunguru 100,000, akazivisa kuti anga afunga kutumira mamwe masoja zviuru makumi mashanu.
Sei Mutungamiri Johnson akati 50,000 panzvimbo ye100,000? Nekuti aiteerera zano kubva kuchinhu chinodaidzwa kuti "Special National Security Estimate" - gwaro rakavanzika, rakapihwa mazuva apfuura nezve kutumirwa kutsva kwakatobvumidzwa, achikurudzira kuti "kuitira kurerutsa mamiriro edambudziko angazokonzerwa neUS iyi huru. chiito . . . zviziviso pamusoro pazvo zviitwe chidimbu pasina kusimbiswa kwepamusoro-soro kupfuura zvakakodzera."
Makore makumi mana nemana gare gare, chimwe chinhu chakafanana chiri kuitika nekutumirwa kwemauto eUS kuAfghanistan.
Admiral Mike Mullen, sachigaro weJoint Chiefs of Staff, akataura neChipiri kuti hapana muganhu wakatemerwa. Achitaura neCentre for Strategic and International Studies, akaridza chiziviso chakazaruka: "Hapana sirin'i pamazinga emauto muAfghanistan."
Matauriro aMullen haana kutaurwa munhau dzeUS. Dzave nhau dzekare dzisina kumbova nhau pakutanga.
Varongi vehondo muWashington vanosungirwa kuenderera mberi nekungwarira pamberi pemba. Nhau dzekuwedzera kukwira dzichauya "chidimbu" - "pasina imwe yekusimbisa kwepamusoro-soro kupfuura zvinodiwa."
Norman Solomon, sachigaro-sachigaro weNational Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign, ndiye munyori wemabhuku akawanda anosanganisira "War Made Easy: Mapurezidhendi nePundits Vanoramba Vachitipinza Murufu." Kuti uwane rumwe ruzivo, enda ku: www.normansolomon.com