02 December 2009
What About Somalia & Haiti?
The Afghanistan strategy that President Obama unveiled on December 1, 2009, is too much for the U.S. to undertake alone. It is the security and welfare of the whole community of civilized nations that is at stake, not only in Afghanistan, but in all uncontrolled regions of the world including, for example, Somalia and Haiti. Information technology provides modestly financed outlaws the capability to threaten the safety and prosperity of even the most powerful nation-states.
It is difficult enough for civilized countries to control deranged terrorists within their own borders (viz. Oklahoma City, Madrid, London, Bali, D.C. Beltway, Fort Hood, etc.). When a country demonstrates a willful lack of attention to establishing and maintaining order, then it forfeits its presumptive immunity from intervention by other individual states or governments acting collectively. However, it is more than one government, even the U.S., can afford in lives and treasure to police such a disorderly place as Afghanistan (or other regions of the world) on its own.
Therefore, President Obama’s address at West Point has to be directed to the entire world community of civilized nation states. His message to the people who elected him must be that he will tirelessly seek to enlist a truly international effort behind ridding the globe of havens for violent terrorist movements. This effort will eliminate showpiece rulers in isolated geographies and share the costs of putting order in place until the local population establishes its own means of effective governance.
The Afghanistan strategy that President Obama unveiled on December 1, 2009, is too much for the U.S. to undertake alone. It is the security and welfare of the whole community of civilized nations that is at stake, not only in Afghanistan, but in all uncontrolled regions of the world including, for example, Somalia and Haiti. Information technology provides modestly financed outlaws the capability to threaten the safety and prosperity of even the most powerful nation-states.
It is difficult enough for civilized countries to control deranged terrorists within their own borders (viz. Oklahoma City, Madrid, London, Bali, D.C. Beltway, Fort Hood, etc.). When a country demonstrates a willful lack of attention to establishing and maintaining order, then it forfeits its presumptive immunity from intervention by other individual states or governments acting collectively. However, it is more than one government, even the U.S., can afford in lives and treasure to police such a disorderly place as Afghanistan (or other regions of the world) on its own.
Therefore, President Obama’s address at West Point has to be directed to the entire world community of civilized nation states. His message to the people who elected him must be that he will tirelessly seek to enlist a truly international effort behind ridding the globe of havens for violent terrorist movements. This effort will eliminate showpiece rulers in isolated geographies and share the costs of putting order in place until the local population establishes its own means of effective governance.
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