International human rights attorney Bob Amsterdam was interviewed about Afghanistan on the Montel Williams Show today on Air America Radio Network. Montel was concerned about members of the administration suggesting US troops might have to be in Afghanistan another dozen or more years. Amsterdam countered that the ramifications of what a muslim radicalization of Central Asia would do to destabilize Russia, India and China are "so massive that Afghanistan is not the place to quickly exit. We are playing for serious stakes in a war that is tonic in its importance. Pakistan is close to being a failed state and it has nuclear bombs. It would be a mortal threat to India if the present government loses its grip. India is the largest democracy in the world."

Afghanistan is not Obama's "Vietnam," says Amsterdam. "It's noone's Vietnam. That was a war that in geopolitical terms meant very little to the United States in terms of our future. However, when we're talking about a failed Pakistan and what that would mean to the US, this is a very important war."