Increase troop not a solution

Increase troop not the solution!

The U.S. president Barack H Obama decided to increase U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Because he blamed Bush government for treating the Iraq war as the center of gravity of the counterattack to terrorist and neglected the location where the 911 attack originated.

He said: “The actual place to fight terrorist should be Afghanistan. That is why the harder we fight the more terrorist we produced! The important objective of the United States is to defeat and eliminate Osama Bin Laden and his bases of criminals of 911 to completely eliminate the threat of U.S. internal security.

But only 34% of American supported his decision. 44% of Afghanistan’s people think that they should reduce foreign troops in their countries. The United Nation and Afghanistan government also indicated that the Afghanistan people are not happy with American military action in their country, because many civilians were casualties of the military operation. In this circumstance, it is hard to achieve the objective by military operation even after the increase of troops.

Fortunately, the president has foresight and emphasizes that “the future war strategy in Afghanistan can’t depend only on the increase of troops".

The Afghanistan questions can’t be solved by military action alone and must be combined with political, economic and diplomatic solutions in order to achieve clear and real objective for American in Afghanistan and surrounding territories.

The U.S. government has spent a few hundred billions and sacrificed a few thousands lives in Iraq war to eliminate Saddam Hussein. However, American may have to pay the same cost to defeat and eliminate Osama Bin Laden and his bases. But there are 900 million Muslims in the world; some of them may want revenge for their “heros”. In such as case, the U.S. internal security threat is still unresolved.

Therefore the best way for American to avoid the same attack as 911 is to find a way to befriend the Muslim world. In view of this, President Obama should consider making a great change to his policy by forgiving those responsible for the 911 tragedy and to let bygone be bygone! And forgive Osama Bin Laden to prove that American does not want to be the enemy of Muslim. As the Chinese proverb said “better to reduce number of enemies than creating more enemies.” China could be in a right position to convince the Muslims to change their hatred toward Americans and seek common ground while resolving differences.... making the world a more peaceful place.

增兵不是办法！

美国奥巴马总统决定增兵阿富汗，因为他认为布什政府将伊拉克作为反恐重心，而忽略了9.11事件的策源地，真正的反恐主战场是阿富汗，这是“越反越恐”的关键所在。美国应把打击和消灭9.11事件的罪魁祸首乌萨马·本·拉登和他的基地组织作为主要反恐任务。以便解决对美国本土安全的威胁。
但（华盛顿邮报）所做的民意调查显示！只有34%的美国人支持增兵计划。美国和英国的广播公司的民调，44%的阿富汗人认为应当减少外国驻军，只有18%的人同意外国增兵。联合国和阿富汗政府都指出，阿富汗民众对外国驻军不满，因为战争造成不少平民伤亡。在这种情况下，美国增兵阿富汗的计划成功机率不高，难以达到目的。
幸好，奥巴马总统强调“不能用增兵来预设美军未来在阿富汗的战略基地”，他指出“光靠军事手段不能解决阿富汗问题，只有综合运用军事、政治、经济和外交等手段多管齐下，美国才能在阿富汗及周边取得明确和可实现的目标”。
美国在伊拉克花了几千亿美元，牺牲了几千条性命才消灭了萨达姆，在阿富汗如再打下去，可能要付出同样的代价才能达到目的。但就算把乌萨马·本·拉登活捉或打死，和铲除了他的基地组织，全世界9亿穆斯林中难免仍有存心要为乌萨马·本·拉登报仇的人，对美国安全的威胁，仍旧不能完全解除！
因此，为避免9.11事件的重演，美国应该以和为贵，想办法与穆斯林世界取得和解。奥巴马总统也许应该在政策上做一个重大的改变，主动跨出第一步：宣布对9.11造事者给与宽恕，以行动证明美国不是穆斯林的敌人，中国谚语说：“冤家宜解不宜结”。同时，利用中国对穆斯林国家的良好关系协助劝说各造，为世界和平放弃一切恩怨，求同存异，友好相处。