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Let's get real, folks. Afghans have been at war since before Alexander the Great crossed the Hindu Kush in 328 BC, Genghis Khan invaded in 1219 AD, or the Soviet spent nine years in the 80's. Afghans are de facto experts in the ugly alternate universe of being on the receiving end of war, and surviving.
Corporate USA, however, is coming apart at the seams, because of the huge cost of our military organization. Costs have to be brought down, and productivity up. By corporate standards, our soldiers are being paid too much to accomplish too little. The solution, as evidenced in CEO success stories of U.S. automobile, manufacturing, and telecommunications industries, is to downsize our military factory, and outsource soldier jobs to countries, say like China, whose soldiers get paid about 80 yuan per month (10 US dollars), compared to a U.S. soldier, who gets paid about 1,000 dollars per month. For what we pay 100,000 U.S. troops per month ($100 million), we could get 10 million Chinese troops. For a mere $10 million per month, we could get a million Chinese. If it is good enough for the Panama Canal, it is good enough for Afghanistan. The sinking sands of the Taliban Tar Pits could be transformed into another Nike-like organizational success story. No more Hearses...Out-source us.
Outsourced soldiers are also cheaper to equip and feed; nothing like the million dollars per troop we pay yearly in Afghanistan. We can just tell Karzai what we want accomplished, who we want killed, where we want roads, schools, or sewers built, and pay on a consignment, piece-work basis, for what actually gets done. No road built: no money paid. No trained Afghan troops: no U.S. dollars. If there is a coup, sorry about your luck, we will award the contract to the lowest bidder. It is the American way. Bonuses for American-friendly policies.
C'mon. We are being fleeced. Afghans can get it done, with more profit for us...or at least our CEO's...until Obama completes his workers' revolution...maybe his second term... We don't need to speak Afghan. The only requirement is the universal sign language for money:
When will our democratic demigods learn to delegate?
