In an interview with CNN about the war in Afghanistan, Sen. Joe Lieberman said (and I quote verbatim): “This is as if we were in the end of the Second World War, democracy was being to take route in Germany and the Nazis started an offensive to take the country back. That's what the Taliban is doing. So right now, the president has put a new team in charge, and they're good. General McChrystal, Ambassador Eikenberry, he's committed to 21,000 more troops. They're beginning to arrive. They're making a difference, those marines, in southern Afghanistan under General Larry Nicholson, doing a great job in turning the tide.” What can the reader deduce from the above? Lieberman is obsessed with Nazism, but there is no similarity whatsoever between what is happening now in Afghanistan and Germany in the last stages of the Second World War. Moreover, General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the U.S forces in Afghanistan, mentioned in a progress report about the war that he needed more troops, in addition to what the president pledged to provide. Meanwhile, the Joint Chief of Staff Mike Mullen and the Defense Secretary Robert Gates insinuated that there are no additional forces available. Also, the Marines in the South are yet to turn the tide of the war, where Taliban fighters control most of the Swat Valley, and are even fighting at the gates of Kabul. Joe Lieberman is a senator who represents Israel and not his own constituency in Connecticut, and perhaps some readers will remember that the Democratic voters there in 2006 abandoned him in the elections, which prompted him to run as an independent democrat, benefiting from the lobby and the known pressure groups to return to the Senate for a fourth time. He was also a supporter of the war on Iraq and still is, and had called for America to attack Iran (on behalf of Israel, of course), not to mention supporting the war on Afghanistan which he wants expanded. He also supports any war against Arabs and Muslims in service of Israel. Furthermore, he in fact supported the Republican presidential candidate John McCain against the Democratic candidate Barack Obama simply because McCain is a war monger. If the reader wishes, he could do what I did and search for Senator Joe Lieberman on Google. He will find that there are 510 thousand news items related to his relationship with Israel and the likes of the war criminal Ariel Sharon. Lieberman's talk about Israel made me search using the same cues for Sen. Arlen Specter. I found that there are 112 thousand news items about his relationship with Israel. This is because he, too, represents it in the Senate more than he represents his own country, and to the extent he has very similar positions to the ones made by Lieberman in the issues related to Arabs and Muslims. This is despite the fact that he is, or was, a Republican, who felt that the Republican Party had decided to ditch him. As such, he decided to run for the Senate next year as a Democrat. It should be mentioned here that he visited Syria once as a representative of Israel, and I objected at the time that he should be received in Damascus. Lieberman, Specter and many others like them are neither Democrats nor Republicans, but are rather Israelis who are willing to sacrifice America's youth in the service of Israel. As such, President Obama finds himself fighting al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and on the Pakistani border, and at the same time, fighting legislators in America whose allegiance lies elsewhere. As a result, I expect yet another American defeat in Afghanistan this time, unless the Americans focus on what is most important, which is the destruction of al-Qaeda. This group is the source of all evil and danger, and as for the Taliban, I have never heard that they have any external ambitions. If al-Qaeda is destroyed, the United States and the Coalition countries may decide to leave the Afghans to fend for themselves, and to choose between the returning president Hamid Karzai, or the opposition which claims that there was a widespread vote fraud in the elections, or the Taliban, who are religiously and humanly backwards and want to take the country back to the dark ages. However, President Karzai may not be the best alternative or model, although I personally believe that he was the winner in the elections, and that if some fraud occurred, it would not have affected the results. I also recall him to be at the top of a regime that is being accused of corruption at all levels of governance. While the Americans brought Karzai to power, he is not a reliable ally: We read that he wants General Mohammad Qasim Fahim to be his vice president although the latter is being accused of drug trafficking, and to the extent that the Bush administration itself refused to deal with him. The administration instead opted for contacting his subordinates, even though he fought alongside U.S. troops since 2001. Meanwhile, General McChrystal says that the situation is dangerous, but that it can be saved. He mentions that there is a new plan but which I think will meet the fate of all the previous plans, unless the Obama administration chooses to focus on al-Qaeda rather than on the Taliban. The Obama administration must also pre-empt the possibility of terrorists acquiring weapons of mass destruction, which is only a matter of time if the problems that created international terrorism are not solved. He who lives shall see.
