Barack Obama..............

[Darth Rotor]

That would be true if our security concerns revolved around dealing with nation-state powers, national armies and such enitities.

Yes, and that's been the case for some time. Since before the Sovs showed up, as I see it.

I'd be interested in hearing more about this proposal, however, if you've got any ideas on how to organize and set such up, and the role for the US in such a set up.

Our role has to have an aim. Once the aim is chosen, role follows. I am not sure the aim is chosen, yet.

Because that is the line that the government of Afghanistan accepts, and the people, aside from the Pashtun along the border, have gone along with it for some time now.

But so what? It is not our place to even address that issue. It's that simple.

The bolded part is a fiction you have created in your own mind. "The people" are even less cohesive than in our own country.

Beyond that, the last part of your post is one way to look at it. One point of cohesion appears to be "get them foreigners out of here." After that is achieved, the normal intramural homicide can get back to its usual level.

DR