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Rex Murphy’s essay, “What We Are Fighting For,” strives to outline the reasons behind the Canadian governments’ continued deployment of troops to Afghanistan. Murphy reviews the initial reasoning for deploying troops overseas, then continues on to explain that simply disbanding the Taliban government is insufficient. He indicates that the UN led mission is also implementing peacekeeping measures, and Canadian troops, as Peacekeepers remained. Murphy outlines the ambitious peacekeeping goals and provides insight into civil liberties those of us from democratic nations, often take for granted. The author then delves into the intricacies and obstacles faced in attempting to install a democratic government in a country still under threat of Taliban…
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In his essay” What are we fighting for,” Rex Murphy discusses what he sees as the most compulsory reasons Canadian troops are in Afghanistan, to support some form of democracy that can resist malevolent influences and provide for its citizens, basic civil opportunities. Murphy begins his discussion with recapping the events leading up to our involvement in the Afghanistan operations, primarily 911, and supporting our ally, the United States in removing a government that supported such atrocities. The Afghanistan mission, which was UN approved, was intent on, most importantly, removing the Taliban and providing stability for its citizens through better government. However, Murphy discusses how without support a new government is not sustainable…
Landler provides some background knowledge on the Afghanistan War that began in 2001, but more so on the presidential side of the war. The article illustrates the thoughts and decisions that President Barack Obama has made regarding the Afghan War. The author provides a video of President Obama giving a speech in regards to the new Afghanistan plan. Landler also recognizes the people, organizations, and presidential administrations that were significant to the war. The article describes the removal of United Sates troops from Afghanistan. It also specifies that only a dominant force of U.S. troops will be left to assist the Afghan military with military needs and security. This article is beneficial because it presents the view of the war from…
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As a result of so many negative factors, the United States has lost a clear reason for why we are at war. Winston Churchill described the conflict of war as a “supreme emergency.” The kind of war being conducted in Afghanistan today falls outside of the definition. America also has no terms regarding what a satisfactory conclusion might look like. The forces will never know when the goal has been met, because the visions have now been blurred. The nation should not be fighting a war without great reason and clear…
since February 2002, approximately 15, 000 Canadian soldiers have served in Afghanistan. 78 Canadian Forces (CF) casualties have occurred, including one diplomat. The role of the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan is often debated. Many disagree with the mission and want the CF to leave Afghanistan now. Doing this however would only be failing the Canadian commitment to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and NATO. Canada should keep its commitment and remain in Afghanistan until the mission is complete. Afghanistan is in state that is almost beyond third-world. However, the mission that Canada is currently involved in has improved the country drastically and will continue to do so as long as the mission continues. So why take the…
America can help create an environment in Afghanistan for the establishment of a stable government, and it can help the Afghans rebuild important state institutions, including a national army and a police force. But only the Afghans themselves can build a nation.…
Although the Obama administration has begun removing troops from Afghanistan, before doing so, senior military leaders had advised strongly against it. The president is pulling out larger numbers of troops than these senior military commanders advised him. The commanders told the president that security advances were fragile and could easily be turned against them. President Obama may have made the decision under pressure because he promised to do just this in his presidential campaign, to remove the troops from Afghanistan. Seeing as how the President is anxious to be re-elected, he is striving hard to fulfill all his promises made in his original campaign.…
The United States should empower the Afghan Government to actively pursue peace negotiations with the Taliban because total victory is neither plausible nor affordable. U.S. and NATO have battled the Taliban for sixteen years. Some defense analysts estimate the Afghan war cost the U.S. between $4 to $6 trillion dollars. Furthermore, thousands of Americans sacrificed their lives and limbs in pursuit of victory against the Taliban. Yet, the Taliban insurgency remains resilient today. The U.S. military strategy is unsuccessful and will not work as long as Pakistan harbors the Afghan Taliban and there’s a corrupt unsustainable Afghan government. Therefore, the U.S. should place more emphasize and prioritization on diplomatic and economic actions to establish a peace agreement with…
By the fourth year of President Obama’s presidency, he wanted to negotiate with the Taliban. There was no other way that the United States could prevent from Afghanistan going back to a civil war without negotiating. However, one individual didn’t think that a stable Afghanistan was essential. Richard Holbrooke believed that a stable Pakistan was essential. He believed that Afghanistan could fall to the Taliban and that would be a black mark on American diplomacy and the military similar to the fall of Saigon in 1975 during the Vietnam War (Sanger, 132). Strategically, Holbrooke believed, that this would mean very little. However, if Pakistan fell to the Taliban, the nuclear weapons would be possessed by them and this would be a huge problem…
Terrorism is an inevitable threat to the maintenance of a state’s security and order in the global system. Obama emphasizes the issue of terrorism in his speech and gives an insight on how American leadership handles terrorism. To begin with, Obama begins his speech by talking about the attacks on 9/11 and acknowledges that counterterrorism using military intervention had decimated Al Qaeda’s leadership between the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Obama commends the elimination of Osama bin Laden and applauds the American military. Realists argue that military power is an important factor in determining a state’s power and security, and through the lens of…
In the George W. Bush administration, the US foreign policy deployed and invested a huge amount of military and money in the Iraq War. But when Obama arrived to the Government of the United States of America, the foreign policy of the US turned around and he promised: “On my first day in office, I would give the military a new mission: ending this war”. He accomplished his promise at the beginning when he brought back the last troop from Afghanistan in December, 2011. But due to the growth of this dangerous group and the threat that this suppose for the US, Obama saw himself forced to start thinking about taking action again in Iraq and…
Noting the Taliban’s growing strength and the difficulty of fighting an enemy hidden in remote caves and mountains, many observers said that the war was unwinnable. On 12/1/09, President Obama announced a new strategy: the rapid deployment of 30,000 additional troops, to break the Taliban’s momentum and turn the war around.…