tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293152265787061341.post2334012542377571104..comments2024-03-03T05:11:57.603-05:00Comments on Wings Over Iraq: Above all, be realisticStarbuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02013102906896853767noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293152265787061341.post-69739659530499948992009-10-30T15:14:47.107-04:002009-10-30T15:14:47.107-04:00So far as the Afghan area is concerned, it has alw...So far as the Afghan area is concerned, it has always been a “fault line” major civilizations and, just like geophysical fault lines, it’ll always be unstable. That’s what has bothered me about the <a href="http://blog.stevenpressfield.com/2009/10/one-tribe-at-a-time-4-the-full-document-at-last/" rel="nofollow">one tribe at a time</a> approach. Actually, that’s what bothers me about this whole enterprise. What happens then? <br /><br />Even if you get all of the tribes of each ethnic group to row in the same direction at the same time, what do you do next? You still don’t have a viable nation state. In order to form a viable state, you would still have to get some sizable portion of the power structures of the Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Baluchi, Hazaras, Aimaqs, Nuristanis, Turkmen, Kirghiz, Pamiri and who knows who else, to set aside their history of infighting and work together toward a goal of setting up such a state. What would cause them to work together on a project such as this? And you would have to do this at the same time that Russia, Iran, China, all of the -stans, India and Pakistan are all trying to influence the outcome. Does anyone really think that we’re going to be able to do this in the next 100 years or so?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14632097721434835823noreply@blogger.com