Nothing good, to be sure – from NRO’s The Corner:
…Cheragh Daily also alleges that local authorities were complicit in the jail break. “Even if digging the tunnel was not a scenario to free the terrorists from prison as concessions to [Taliban] leaders, we cannot rule out involvement of powerbrokers and influential hands in the incident.” Ridiculing Hamid Karzai’s conciliatory approach to the Taliban, the paper asks the president to explain whether the escapees were “foreign elements” or “dissatisfied brothers.” The paper warns that all escapees will “return to their trenches and continue to kill defenseless Afghan people and troops.” Afghan daily Hasht-e Sobh writes that the escape of Taliban fighters could “boost the morale of the Taliban and weaken the confidence of security forces.”
Daily Afghanistan says the Afghan government has lost credibility and is riddled with corruption and bribery. To mask its incompetence, the paper writes, the government resorts to “complicated and dangerous” policies, referring to the government’s “one-sided” reconciliation efforts with the Taliban. It alleges that the Taliban and foreign intelligence agencies have infiltrated the “senior ranks of the security apparatus.”…
It could be, of course, that Karzai is calculating the results of a US withdrawal – which is supposed to start this summer – and is simply covering his bases. Believing that if he goes easy on the Taliban, they’ll go easy on him when he’s no longer backed by direct US military aid. This would be a foolish hope on the part of Karzai or, indeed, any other Afghan leader. The Taliban are in it for the long haul and are playing for keeps. The best place for such captives – especially those rated most dangerous – is in Guantanamo Bay. But even though Obama won’t close it down (at least, not until after election day), he’s not willing to start filling it back up, again…another example of liberal fantasies wrecking any chance of rational policy.
Progress is being made in Afghanistan – you just don’t get to hear about it much because (a) the Obama Administration isn’t keen to talk about what is happening there and (b) the MSM no longer needs to keep a running tally of American dead because the President is no longer Republican. This is turning out to be a close run thing – can the military win this thing before Obama (and, now, the Afghan government) loses it? I hope our troops will pull it off – but I worry that even if we’re just an inch away from victory, Obama will pull the plug rather than risk the war going on in to the 2012 election campaign.
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