I have friends who served in Afghanistan, with the US Army, and one friend said it was a mess, he said that everything was unorganized, then he ended up with PTSD from the experience.
Of note, the people of Afghanistan need to take bathes, they always look like such dirty people. They need to take bathes and they need to wear clean clothes. They can have huge public bathes like the Romans. Or huge public swimming pools with public showers where people can shower before they go in the swimming pool.
My idea is to clean things up and make them more civilized. Clean people, and public swimming pools, that is stuff that people can see.
It is like what Rudy Giuliani did in New York City, he went in and he cleaned up the graffiti, and he instituted the Broken Windows Theory. Appearances matter, and Rudy made New York appear better, that was the first thing he did, he cleaned things up. Then, when everything was nice, people behaved better, and crime went down, and business improved and more tourists came to New York. It is sad what happened with Rudy with Trump, Trump is such a bad man, Rudy was once a great man. Rudy would know what to do in Afghanistan if Rudy was in his right mind as a Christian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theoryI would go in and make things civilized, and I would improve the peace-time economy.
I would bring in ships full of cotton seeds, and ships full of sheep, and ships full of farming equipment, etc, and I would create good honest jobs for people. I would make them civilized.
And gentrification could happen, they could start fixing up their communities, and pride can happen in their communities, and the prices can rise and they can have a real estate market and they can learn the real estate business, etc.
Security can happen from the Afghans themselves, and from the French Foreign Legion. Until full control goes over to the Afghans themselves.
Anyhow, I think civilization needs to happen in Afghanistan, and it needs to be cleanliness that you can see, and improvements that are real and visible.
New buildings can be built, and old buildings can be painted, they can have new cobblestone streets, and new farms, etc. And giant public swimming pools can be built, etc. and people can plant fruit trees, etc.
And they can wear nice new clothes, etc.
And I would bring in Catholic schools, Catholic hospitals, Catholic orphanages, and there could be freedom of religion and Catholic churches.
The Afghans need changes that they can see, and cleanliness and civilization that is real and visible.
You cannot just go in with brute force and win, you need to win their hearts and minds, and you need the support of the women, etc.
You do not go in and show them hell, you want instead to go in and show them what civilization looks like and how nice it can be to have civilization. You want the people to demand civilization once they know what civilization looks like. And they need lots of soap and water.
Salute,
Tony V.
Poll
