Afghanistan is Obama's Vietnam

The USA President Forty-Four must read history-or is he restricted to American history- and ascertain why the British during the nineteenth century were unable to colonize-imperialize- Afghanistan; the USSR was unable-1979-1989 conflict- to colonize this mountainous and spartan terrain. The Soviets had amassed 500, 000 troops, while the Americans are committing  approximately 50,000 infantry. The US military campaign began in the fall of 2001, eight years and counting, and what exactly have they achieved for the Afghanis?

The British military campaigns were launched in 1838 and 1878 respectively; both military battles were disastrous. During both wars, the British imposed their regime change-puppet leaders-Shuja Shah and Sher Ali. Once again history repeats itself, Bush Junior also imposed a de-facto leader Ahmed Karzai- one important notation: his brother is a narco-trafficker- who has limited sovereignty over the country, and numerous sources ( Patrick Coburn, Andrew Bacevich) assert that he has hegemony only over Kabul.

Another salient footnote: Ahmed Karzai was a former consultant for UNOCAL- and coincidentally another UNOCAL consultant, Zalmay Khalilzad was appointed by the Bush Adm as the special envoy to Afghanistan- and it is interesting to note how the UNOCAL executive, John Maresca, began soliciting a number of House committees for a fruitful and amicable investing environment for the creation of an oil pipeline that traverses via Afghanistan en route from Turkmenistan to Pakistan then India. There must be a myriad of polemic in the American corporate media to reveal the uncanny and putrid coincidence of Haliburton, and Cheney's decision to invade this country and Obama's military objective of transfering the "War on Terror" from Iraq to Afghnaistan.

Did the invading Western powers ever have an understanding of the culture in South-West Asia? Were they ever cognizant of the different tribal forces, religious denominations, languages, values and customs of this volatile region? Did they all believe they could impose their hegemonic presuppositions?

This US military war of aggression will be ingrained in history as Mr. Obama's Vietnam War , as Iraq is Bush Jr's Vietnam War; America is abound with unenlightened leaders, incognizant scholars of history, and these characteristics will enhance the fall of the~ a putrid Pax Americana~ Imperium Americana. An American hegemony will not prevail, war is not the response; history recalls another salient date of 1776 where another empire  superimposed an alien culture on a colony; why would Afghanistan accept, today, a contemptible~kitsch~ culture and its principles of domination?