And the one lesson we should have drawn from Vietnam was that our well-intentioned generosity only corrupts the country we're trying to help. The Taliban, like the Vietnamese communists, are morally inoculated by poverty. For those we claim as allies, our wealth has spread a plague of corruption across the land, turning small-time Afghan shoplifters into Bernie Madoffs with beards and turbans.
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Family Security Matters Contributing Editor Ralph Peters is a retired Army officer (and former enlisted man), and an author. The latest of his 26 books, The Officers' Club, a novel set in the post-Vietnam Army, was published in January.
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by Ralph Peters
Because of the ease with which we collapsed its national government in the autumn of 2001, we've spent a decade underestimating the Taliban. |
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