{"id":3196,"date":"2009-11-05T22:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T21:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2009-11-05T22:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T21:05:05","slug":"warum-der-krieg-in-afghanistan-nicht-zu-gewinnen-ist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2009\/11\/05\/warum-der-krieg-in-afghanistan-nicht-zu-gewinnen-ist_3196","title":{"rendered":"Warum der Krieg in Afghanistan nicht zu gewinnen ist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erstmals hat ein h\u00f6herer amerikanischer Beamter in Afghanistan seinen Job hingeschmissen, weil er den Sinn des Krieges nicht mehr sieht. Matthew Hoh, ein ehemaliger Marine-Soldat, der den zivilen Aufbau in einer Provinz im S\u00fcden verantwortete, hat einen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/hp\/ssi\/wpc\/ResignationLetter.pdf?sid=ST2009102603447\">vierseitigen Brief<\/a> an das State Department geschrieben, der sofort Aufsehen erregte. Richard Holbrooke, der Sonderbotschafter der amerikanischen Regierung f\u00fcr Afghanistan und Pakistan, versuchte Hoh zu halten, doch der blieb bei seiner K\u00fcndigung.<\/p>\n<p>Sein zentrales Argument ist, dass die Vereinigten Staaten zu einer Partei in einem 35j\u00e4hrigen B\u00fcrgerkrieg geworden seien.<\/p>\n<p>Aus der <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/26\/AR2009102603394.html\">Washington Post<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8222;I&#8217;m not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love,&#8220; Hoh said. Although he said his time in Zabul was the &#8222;second-best job I&#8217;ve ever had,&#8220; his dominant experience is from the Marines, where many of his closest friends still serve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;There are plenty of dudes who need to be killed,&#8220; he said of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. &#8222;I was never more happy than when our Iraq team whacked a bunch of guys.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>But many Afghans, he wrote in his resignation letter, are fighting the United States largely because its troops are there &#8212; a growing military presence in villages and valleys where outsiders, including other Afghans, are not welcome and where the corrupt, U.S.-backed national government is rejected. While the Taliban is a malign presence, and Pakistan-based al-Qaeda needs to be confronted, he said, the United States is asking its troops to die in Afghanistan for what is essentially a far-off civil war.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hier ein Interview aus Al-Jazeera:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-C1LQCPcQY8&#038;hl=de&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erstmals hat ein h\u00f6herer amerikanischer Beamter in Afghanistan seinen Job hingeschmissen, weil er den Sinn des Krieges nicht mehr sieht. Matthew Hoh, ein ehemaliger Marine-Soldat, der den zivilen Aufbau in einer Provinz im S\u00fcden verantwortete, hat einen vierseitigen Brief an das State Department geschrieben, der sofort Aufsehen erregte. Richard Holbrooke, der Sonderbotschafter der amerikanischen Regierung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Warum der Krieg in Afghanistan nicht zu gewinnen ist - J\u00f6rg Lau<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2009\/11\/05\/warum-der-krieg-in-afghanistan-nicht-zu-gewinnen-ist_3196\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Warum der Krieg in Afghanistan nicht zu gewinnen ist - J\u00f6rg Lau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Erstmals hat ein h\u00f6herer amerikanischer Beamter in Afghanistan seinen Job hingeschmissen, weil er den Sinn des Krieges nicht mehr sieht. 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