CREATE DEPENDENCY... CREATE RESPONSIBILITY

 One fact that we are experiencing today is the creation of dependency is not really a good thing.  Many instances of that condition lack the understated necessity of benign responsibility.  We can see the affect of dependency and    the results of stepping away from responsibility.  Dependency has always carried with it the stigma of weakness and the creation of it has given power of control to the giver.  We can look to history for so many examples.  One example closest to our home of the United States is that of Cuba.  Socialism in its promises to provide for its society, its people, has created a nation of need. Needs unmet, by those who promised that nation a better life.

At today’s point in history The U.S. society watches the abdication of responsibility in a nation that dependency has been born.

As we watch the re-emergence of Taliban control in the country of Afghanistan, many of us blame the lack of resolve within the Afghan military forces.  Many in our country take the point of view that what happens to that society is their own problem if they refuse to stand for their own country.  Our  U.S. forces have been in that country for twenty years, we have spent billions of taxpayer dollars, we have lost more than two thousand American lives and so many more body parts in that period of time.  One of the facts that is oft unmentioned is the cost to the Afghanistan’s population.  They have contributed some sixty thousand plus souls fighting for their country and their new government, some estimated thirty to sixty thousand people remaining who have translated for our troops and fought alongside our troops in that conflict.  Our government took the political position of no further responsibility.  We provided their forces with the weaponry needed by their three hundred thousand personnel, which we trained, to fight for their country.  Those forces disbanded almost immediately. 

The dependency that we created in that military force through support of Intel, air support and advice carried with it a responsibility.  Our government did not see that responsibility.  Nor did it see or at least accept the responsibility to our own nation.