The new US policy toward Afghanistan makes no mention of trying to transform that country into a democracy. On the contrary, as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated before Congress in January, “If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of Central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose.”
巴拉克·奥巴马总统当然是“现实主义”的信奉者。在对待阿富汗问题上，美国新的外交政策目的不是要将阿富汗变成民主国家。相反的，正如美国国防部长罗伯特·盖茨在国会作证时表示：“如果我们的目的是建立所谓的“瓦尔哈拉式ampquot;的中亚国家的话，那我们必将失败。”