The US Conference of Mayors did something on Monday that they haven’t done in over 40 years. They passed a resolution calling for an
accelerated end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What is important to me at least is that the last time the Conference acted on this subject, we were mired in the rice paddies of Viet Nam, fighting another unpopular war. The resolution becomes the official policy of the Conference.
However, the Mayor of Kabul, doesn’t think this is such a good idea.
On Sunday, Muhammad Younus Nawandish, the mayor of Kabul, expressed some reservations about the idea of an American withdrawal. Nawandish spoke to the conference on Saturday. He told HuffPost that his country was still “in need of security from the international community.”
“We understand that the U.S. military will not stay in Afghanistan forever. But still we need your existence for the stability of Afghanistan. If they withdraw now there is a possibility of falling Afghanistan back into during the Taliban regime,” Nawandish said through an interpreter
Maybe I’m too much of a cynic, but what Mayor Nawandish really said was that “we need your money because we have to steal what we can so we can live in luxury once we decide to flee from the peasants.” Then again, my Pashto is a bit rusty these days.
Seeing that this resolution was the first of its kind in 2 generations, I thought this would be a fitting musical tribute:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk[/youtube]