Jane Stillwater: Why US Troops will Never leave Afghanistan!

I read somewhere that if you want your children to do what you tell them to do, there are only two things that actually work: Threats and bribes. Well, the same thing should be true with regard to international relations, but it's not. Internationally speaking, threats and bribes have obviously gotten American corporatist leaders absolutely nowhere. After decades and decades of administering extremely serious threats and fantastically huge bribes, American corporatists still aren't even close to being obeyed, or even respected, by most other countries on this planet. American corporatists nowadays are just simply being hated. Instead of having other countries instantly obey Washington and Wall Street like they were a bunch of obedient and/or traumatized children, all of these so-called "kids" obviously have become passive-aggressive haters instead, and sometimes not all that passive as well. Take Pakistan for instance. In 1947, shortly after it had become a nation, Pakistan willingly and happily signed on to become one of America's most important allies in the Great Game, and now, as of May 2011, diplomatic ties between Pakistan and America have completely disintegrated, but only after a very long time (60 years-plus) spent with Pakistan being the recipient of a whole laundry list of heavy-duty threats and almost obscene bribes from American corporatists.