Today's Wall Street Journal: "The Afghan and U.S. governments have launched a new effort to enlist tribal fighters from many of the country's most violent provinces in the war against the Taliban..."
The United States military command believes this tactic worked in Iraq (dubious) and it certainly did not in Vietnam. The tactic has been tried before in Afghanistan with miserable results.
"The new initiative doesn't mark the first time U.S. and Afghan officials have tried to enlist the country's tribes in the fight against the Taliban. In a few instances, tribal militias were formed in specific parts of the country but were disbanded after they were deemed ineffective. In some cases, the militias turned to criminal activity or took part in tribal feuds." (!!)
And, so does the military command think it will be any different this time?
Sometimes one has to conclude that these people live in a dream world with no feel or understanding for the actual world in front of them.
As it stands, this latest enlisting of tribal fighters is nothing more than busy-work designed to look like something is being done. It shows the bankruptcy of the American intervention.
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