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Tucker Carlson talked with Col. Douglas Macgregor about the possibility of war with Iran. Vijfde Colonne Hezbollah in VS.
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% % citaat uit Robin Blackburn (2003:163-164) % % : While the US refused a role to Iran, it did take advantage of its hostility to the Taliban to forward its Afghan campaign. Unlike the governments of most other large Muslim states, the government of Iran is not financially or militarily dependent on the US. It has a long border with Afghanistan and many ties with its population. The overthrow of Taliban rule in Western Afghanistan, especially around Herat, was the direct result of forces entering from Iran and backed by Iran.
Indeed if the Northern Alliance had not been kept going by Iran, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the US would have been deprived of the ground forces which actually defeated the Taliban. Iran alone has standing within the Muslim world and was manifestly better placed than they were to appeal for a broader internal government to replace the Taliban. The best that can be said about the regimes in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan is that they have a broadly secular character, and could allow secular Afghan refugees to return to their homeland. Because of their autocratic character, brutal treatment of opposition, past subservience to Moscow, and ethnic links, the support of the Uzbek and Tajik governments does not strengthen the appeal of any Afghan regime they support.
The Northern Alliance itself was an uneasy alliance of warlords and of political and religious leaders who had responsibility for the misrule of 1992-96. The US opted for a new regime to be led by Hamid Karzai, a leading member of the royal clan, and successfully pressured the loya jirga to endorse their man. But while dollars will buy seeming compliance, and US special forces guard the new president, the future will remain uncertain. % % einde citaat % %
Robin Blackburn (2003:163-164) The Imperial Presidency and the Revolutions of Modernity. In: Debating Cosmopolitics. ISBN-13: 9781859845059.