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U.S. strategy simply hasn’t worked. For all its bombs and drones, the consensus is that the Taliban in Afghanistan are winning while Zardari last month told the BBC that the “Pakistani Taliban have the upper hand, and both the world and Pakistan are losing the ‘war on terror’.”
If that’s true, then the U.S. and NATO must back off to allow the region to solve its own problems and heal its own wounds. Every day they are in country they prove over and over again that violence only breeds violence.
It’s time that Zardari and his Afghan counterpart President Hamid Karzai told them “Time’s up. Get packing”. It’s more than likely that once the red rag stops waving the extremist bulls will quit snorting. Linda S. Heard is a British specialist writer on Middle East affairs. (Source: Gulf News)Many I met on the streets of the capital believe the blast was caused by a “foreign hand”, a reference that usually denotes anyone from India, Afghanistan, Israel and Russia to the United States.
“They have taken revenge for the attacks in Delhi,” said Allahditta Malik, a shopkeeper whose windows were shattered in the blast, referring to recent terrorist attacks in India.
Linda S. Heard, the so called British specialist writer on Middle East affairs, is either on the payroll of the Pakistani army, or is an idiot who has little understanding of the of the conflict.
The US and NATO are here to stay in Afghanistan, as long as it is required, and they can not be wished away by a bunch of day dreamers.
These extremist bulls are brain washed in ISI sponsored madrasas, hence they need some special medicine for treatment, simply taking away the red rag does not help !
A shopkeeper hardly knows anything about the real world of ISI and CIA , and it makes little sense to put emphasis on the opinion of ordinary people, based on speculation.