| "Right now, our troops are being used as props in a campaign year, as pawns by dull-witted generals who just don't know what else to do, and as cash cows by corrupt Afghan politicians, generals and warlords (all of whom agree that it's virtuous to rob the Americans blind). What are our goals? What is our strategy? We're told, endlessly, that things are improving in Afghanistan, yet, ten years ago, a U.S. Army general, unarmed, could walk the streets of Kabul without risk. Today, there is no city in Afghanistan where a U.S. general could stroll the streets. We may not have a genius for war, but we sure do have a genius for kidding ourselves..."
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Family Security Matters Contributing Editor Ralph Peters is the author of the just-released historical novel Cain at Gettysburg. A retired Army officer and former enlisted man, he is Fox News' Strategic Analyst and a regular contributor to familysecuritymatters.org. | | That staff sergeant murdered sixteen Afghans. But where is the real madness? Is it our own leaders - the President, Congress and the Generals - instead who are to blame? Read Col. Ralph Peters' brilliant essay on this very question - and let us hear what you think. 
by Ralph Peters The problem in Afghanistan isn't our troops-it's a leadership in and out of uniform that is bankrupt of ideas, bankrupt of ethics, bankrupt of moral courage-and rich only in self-interest and ambition. 
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