Afghanistan: un effort qui en vaut la peine?

L'opinion de l'éditorialiste Susan Brown.

D'abord:
"With scant media reports about the positive impacts of our presence in Afghanistan, it’s easy to fall prey to a feeling of hopelessness regarding our operations there. A cursory glance at Afghanistan seems to project a dysfunctional nation infested with godless, faceless, soulless lunatics who will stop at nothing to “kill all infidels.” This type of generalization makes us worse than our enemy – because we know better."

Et plus loin:
"Although it seems that for every step forward, we take two back, in reality, we are slowly winning Afghani hearts and minds. The International Council on Security and Development completed a recent survey of 1400 representatives throughout Afghanistan that found our military achievements “unquestionable,” with the majority believing that NATO and the Afghan government are “winning the war.”
Enjoying a cold Pepsi in Kabul or a woman graduating from college cannot make up for the loss of a single soldier’s life, but these events remind us, and the Afghan populace we’re not just there to kill Bin Laden, we’re there to save a people from the grip of the savages among them who checked out of humanity a long time ago. And for that, the sacrifice is not in vain.
Getting lost in the darkness of war has a tendency to overshadow its purpose, and sometimes we need to be reminded why it is good to take the next step forward. In his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, author J.R.R. Tolkien amply explained “why,” when his character, Sam, encouraged his buddy Frodo to continue in the fight. Tolkien wrote, “By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. .it is only a passing thing, this shadow…a new day will come… there’s some good in this world…and it’s worth fighting for.”"

http://blog.cagle.com/2011/05/is-afghanistan-worth-the-fight/