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Walid Phares: How We Can Leave Behind A Stable Afghanistan

January 4, 2019 by GregC

Listen to “Walid Phares: How We Can Leave Behind A Stable Afghanistan” on Spreaker.

For more than 18 years, American forces have beaten back the enemy in Afghanistan, but leaving behind a stable, reliable country is proving far more challenging.  However, terrorism expert Dr. Walid Phares says there is a way to a lasting victory there if only U.S. officials are willing to listen.

Phares says U.S. policy seems to embrace two options when dealing with enemies overseas.  He praises the U.S. and our allies for repeatedly crushing the Taliban and other radical groups but points out the military gains constantly slip away due to societal instability.  The other option is to declare the mission complete and leave, which runs the great risk of all gains being wiped out and extremists filling the vacuum.

Phares is tired of watching this debate.  In a recent post he said victory is achievable without committing American forces to Afghanistan indefinitely.

“There is a way to win the war in Afghanistan. It’s not the way we fought it for 18 years and not the alternative suggestion to talk to the Taliban and leave. Washington, Administration & Congress must challenge themselves to win and leave. It could have been won within a decade,” Phares wrote, later adding that his approach would wrap up the Afghanistan mission in three years.

And what is his plan?

“It’s to leave but always leave behind allies, forces, and, most importantly, a civil society that can resist.  We need to inject strength in civil society,” said Phares.

He says we need to make the Taliban’s allies our allies.

“Those forces who can help us – if we want to withdraw – will be the same forces that the Taliban has used for so many years, the tribes,” said Phares.

“The Taliban has used the Pashtun tribes for the the past 15 years.  We haven’t approached them strategically.  We haven’t included them in the government.  I wouldn’t vote to bring the Taliban to government, but I would vote to bring the Pashtun tribes…to government,” he added.

Phares says the other critical element towards a stable society is winning over the women of Afghanistan, especially the mothers and the teachers.

“(Mothers) are in contact with their children for so many hours.  This is where you begin counter-radicalization, not at age forty or thirty when the Taliban recruit them,” said Phares.

“There are 18,000-25,000 teachers in Afghanistan.  They are training the minds of the kids from age five or six until they leave the school,” said Phares.

Listen to the full podcast to hear how these ideas are being received in Afghanistan and here in Washington and why he thinks a similar approach would also work in Syria.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Afghanistan, news, Taliban, victory

Cherokees Slam Warren, O’Keefe Exposes McCaskill, Sinema’s Bad Week

October 16, 2018 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America sip three good martinis for conservatives today.  They begin by highlighting Cherokee Nation’s slamming of Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test as being any sort confirmation that she belongs in its ranks.  They also discuss Project Veritas exposing the McCaskill campaign in Missouri for taking great pains to prevent voters there from knowing how liberal McCaskill really is.  And they chronicle the litany of bad press for Arizona Democratic Senate hopeful Kyrsten Sinema, including not caring if an American fought for the Taliban in 2003 and bringing in witches for an anti-war vote that same year.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Arizona, Cherokee, Claire McCaskill, Elizabeth Warren, Kyrsten Sinema, National Review, O'Keefe, Taliban, Three Martini Lunch

Bergdahl Pleads Guilty, Iraq Devolves Again, Newsweek’s Hate

October 16, 2017 by GregC


Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America react to Bowe Bergdahl pleading guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, glad that justice is being done and not being swept under the rug in the case of the soldier who left his unit in Afghanistan and was returned by the Obama administration in exchange for five top level Taliban detainees.  They also groan as Iraqi forces are now fighting with the Kurds over territory in northern Iraq when they’re supposed to be finishing off ISIS.  And they unload on Newsweek for it’s reckless reporting, including such gems as interviewing pedophile and former House Speaker Dennis Hastert about politics and declaring the Family Research Council a hate group.

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Filed Under: News & Politics, Podcasts Tagged With: Bowe Bergdahl, Dennis Hastert, Family Research Council, Iraq, Kirkuk, Kurds, Martini, National Review, Newsweek, President Obama, Taliban

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