Citaat:
It’s now obvious to everyone that this is not a ‘good’ war designed to eliminate the opium trade, discrimination against women and everything bad – apart from poverty, of course. So what is Nato doing in Afghanistan? Has this become a war to save Nato as an institution? Or is it more strategic, as was suggested in the spring 2005 issue of Nato Review:
The centre of gravity of power on this planet is moving inexorably eastward … The Asia-Pacific region brings much that is dynamic and positive to this world, but as yet the rapid change therein is neither stable nor embedded in stable institutions. Until this is achieved, it is the strategic responsibility of Europeans and North Americans, and the institutions they have built, to lead the way … security effectiveness in such a world is impossible without both legitimacy and capability.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/tariq11132009.html
Zowel bij voor als tegenstanders van een door het westen gecontroleerde unilaterale wereld is dit een vraag die speelt tegenwoordig...wat doet de NATO eigenlijk in Afghanistan?
Het westen wil Azië controleren, maar dat is een te hoog gegrepen doel.