David Miliband and his new theory on Afghanitan

After losing the Labour leadership contest to Ed Miliband the former foreign secretary David Miliband came out yesterday with a new theory on Afghanistan crisis.  He claimed that the Middle East war and Libya in particular has undermined the war on Afghanistan.  He warns that Afghanistan is in danger of becoming ‘the forgotten war’.  David Miliband suggests that there is need for an urgency to find a political solution in Afghanistan before the withdrawal of British troops. But the same time he wants the British troops to remain in Afghanistan beyond 2015.

David Miliband reiterated that the West should find a way to negotiate directly with Taliban, who he also admits will bring the sharia law back to the government if they share power with the Afghan government.

David Miliband is right by indicating that Afghanistan is going to be forgotten because of the Middle East crises.   The withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan in 2014 will be the new chapter of other crises because the latest bloody protests in many part of Afghanistan proved that the Afghan government is not able to take care of the security situation.  I really hope Mr Miliband could persuade British politicians and his own brother to change their minds and do not withdraw British troops from Afghanistan.

But on the hand his theory and suggestion for Afghanistan`s crises seem more unrealistic.  Taliban will never talk with the Afghan government and even if they did it will not be the end of crisis.

The idea of talking with the Taliban is coming from everywhere but it really makes me laugh of seeing how out of touches these politicians are.  Recently Ed Miliband visited Kabul and he advised the leader of opposition Dr Abdullah that the best way to bring peace and security in Afghanistan is to talk with the Taliban.  He has also mentioned the England`s problem with Northern Ireland and how England had been terrorised by Irish terrorist and the problem they had been created for England.  Then he said in the end we managed to talk and solved the problem.

It really surprises me when Ed Miliband is comparing the Afghanistan crisis with England and Northern Ireland and suggests the same solution for it. I don’t know if he knows anything about Afghanistan history and relationship between different ethnic there.

Sometime I really wonder if these people are really familiar with bits of facts and realities in Afghanistan.  It has been 10 years that the international community are involved in Afghanistan.  Thousands of innocent people have died and hundreds of Nato soldiers and personal have been killed there.  363 British soldiers have died so far and more than 1000 soldiers and personal injured.  British government has invested Billions of pounds in Afghanistan.  But let’s see realistically how far Afghanistan has gone ahead.  After 10 years we`ve got a president, who lead the world second bottom corrupt country.  We`ve` got a country which is one of the top country in the world for drug production. The security situation is worse than 9 years ago.  Taliban are everywhere.

I think the West got it wrong from the beginning.  They invested on the wrong people and they approached with a wrong policy.  10 years is very long time it teaches lots of experiences.  It seems the West haven`t looked back and analysed what went wrong.  In my opinion the Afghanistan crisis will never end without having a strong and stable central government.  If the international community picked up the right people and invested only half of their investment to build a strong government than everything would have been different now.  There are a bunch of criminals and corrupt people in power whom never cared about people and never will.  If the West continues their support of this government, continue the same policy and insist on talk with Taliban, we will be witness of a great disastrous in Afghanistan not in 10 year but in 5 years time.