Developments in Afganistan

Afghanistan has been a constant concern to the world ever since the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. Within the past eight years America has been frequently trying to remove the Taliban from power and to destroy Al Qaeda. We wanted to enhance the interests of the US imperialism forming better relations with Central Asia and the Middle East. Since then, the war on terror in 2003 has been nothing but a result of deaths and destruction. Although the main goal was to create peace, stability and put an end to terrorism the lives of many Afghans and Iraqi civilians have been piling up and increasing.

Between the policy/politics, elections and the Taliban and Al Qaeda, Afghanistan needs to find a way to bring their country together and work as one. Hopefully recently declared President, Hamid Karzai can open up a new chapter to the new an improved government that he can now be able to complete. Karzai won the controversial Afghan 2009 presidential election after his main opponent Dr. Abdullah Abdullah dropped out of second round.

The U.S. has constantly kept a watch on Afghanistan as Obama takes his roll of being President and taking much needed action. He has already been able to eliminate the amount of U.S. troops that have been contributing to the ongoing war. Obama's war council has now been meeting to discuss new strategy's for Afghanistan and their mission. Recent suicidal violence among the Pakistan has tempted Obama to increase the size of his military force but still is in deliberation. However if he was to make that change, it would probably be the biggest mistake to not go along with Vice President Biden, who is against the raise in forces towards Afghanistan.

Upon recent interviews, President Hamid Karzai talked about the Taliban stating "there are thousands of them who are not ideologically our enemies. There are thousands of them who don't hate us or hate our way of life, who are not enemies to America, who are not enemies to the world, who just want to live in their own country in peace, who are frightened, are intimidated by bad behavior -- from the very beginning -- by some of the people that the coalition employed and by some of the people that the Afghan government had working on security issues. So, we have to bring those elements back to Afghanistan who are not part of al Qaeda, not part of terrorist networks, and who are accepting the Afghan Constitution and who are willing to come back."

Other developments besides the war, include the closures of schools in Afghanistan due to swine flu, drug routes being traced and the Pakistan U.S. commitment of articulating a long-term vision for the regions. Between all of the chaos that Afghanistan has dealt with, hopefully a brighter side will begin to show. Their government should be stronger now and with the help of the U.S., time will only aid their country for the better.