For the ones that say that GWOT or WOT is a non winnable WAR. I say look at that Drug War and how people said the same thing years ago to current times. How about what the U.S. has done in Colombia and its drug war and the Colombian FARC and other groups (death squads). Should this be a better role model for a new Campaign for Afghanistan? Look at what has happen there in its history and the similarities with Afghanistan and Pakistan. Colombia’s raise or fall into chaos is very similar to Pakistan and Afghanistan, with both regional having a Key part to the Drug trafficking.
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The regime’s lack of efforts to reduce poverty and the tremendous social inequality, lead to armed resistance against the government from new opposition groups. Instead of doing something about the social inequality, the government in the 70’s reacted to the growing numbers of guerrilla movements by carrying out campaigns against rebellion groups with the help of military advice from the US. A key point in these initiatives was to establish paramilitary groups. These groups were established by the army and their allies amongst the landowners and the political elite. The paramilitary groups were sometimes meant to have the roll of protective forces for the landowners and leading businesses against attempts at blackmail from the guerrilla movements. But quickly they became the central force in the government’s strategy to fight against the rebellion. In the middle of the 1980’s the paramilitary groups formed close ties to Colombia’s narcotics mafia. Already at this point, the paramilitaries functioned as regular death squads. It began to become more and more difficult to discern who controlled who in the complex network of the state apparatus, the military, rich landowners and business people, and the narcotics mafia, who all controlled their own paramilitary forces.
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Where I’m I talking about? Central Asia – Afghanistan and Pakistan? Or Colombia and her neighbors.
The amount of U.S. Aid to Colombia, 1997-2003 is over 11 Million. I’m not going into the Political or military planning or inter-Agencies used in Colombia.
But I will end with Colombia and her War on Drugs. The U.S. Military and Inter-Agency have been doing something there that has somewhat worked. So it is a different in culture or different Governmental or Military approach between the two countries and their cultures?