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80% of Afghanistan is under insurgent control. This constitutes sanctuaries for the Taliban. The US has wasted $143 Billion in Afghanistan and more than 3 Trillion Dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pakistani defense analysts are surprised that the US, NATO and ISAF forces have been so incompetent in eliminating hideouts for the Talibanin Afghanistan. Pakistan cannot have peace unless and until the sanctuaries inside Afghanistan have been eliminated. Pakistanis and Pakistan is sick and tired of the excuses from the incompetent soldiers in and around Kabul. Pakistan cheese for Western whine: Defeat in Afghanistan. Pakistanis have repeatedly suggested clear solutions. Solution: ‘Pakistani boots’ on the ground inside Afghanistan
The US has no clue about Pakistan. To hide its defeat it keeps blaming others. The Afghan reviews are not real review, simply excuses to blame others. Blaming Pakistan is a growth industry in Washington and other capitals. Putting blame on Pakistan won’t help war on terror by Tariq Amin-Khan
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The story of Afghanistan and colonialism begins a long time ago. British tried to take up White Man’s burden in Afghanistan. It suffered badly in Kabul and could not hold it. NATO Lessons: 1880 UK defeat at Maiwand-Afghanistan. Today ISAF is making the same mistakes as the British did more than a century ago. Is NATO committing suicide in Afghanistan? There is a powerplay going on. …the CIA assassination. Juggling all the permutations and the permutations, the US has considered every possibility. However the most obvious one escapes the $80 Billion think tank industry in the USA. Saving the Pashtuns of Afghania from Afghanistan. Eradicating the Pashtun plight and ending occupation.
Either the US Defense Secretary Bob Gates is delusional, or he has been smoking the stuff his forces are protecting in and around Kabul. It is absurd to talk about “sactuaries” and “safe havens” in Pakistan when 80% of Afghanistanis a safe haven for the Taliban. ISAF, NATO and US forces have been unable to eliminate the Taliban from 80% of Afghanistan. The “Taliban” don’t need a sanctuary in Pakistan, they have plently in Afghanistan itself.
Shifting blame does not resolve the issues. Blaming Pakistan may be a profitable growth industry, but surely it does not accomplish anything productive in Realpolitics. It is counterproductive and assanine to say that there are sanctuaries in Pakistan when all of Afghanistan is a sanctuary for the Taliban.
The blame game has not worked for the CIA. Its own incompetence has resutled in a popular insurgency that is now out of control and has filtered over into Pakistan.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The “most worrisome” part of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan has become the havens the Taliban and other insurgents have carved out in neighboring Pakistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
Afghan and U.S. soldiers walk at the site of a suicideattack outside Jalalabad in Nangarhar province Sunday.
Gates said the United States had a similar perch in Pakistan when U.S. and Pakistani officials supported Afghanistan’s mujahedeen rebels against the Soviet Union in the 1980s — “and let me tell you, it made a big difference.”
“I think as long as they have a safe haven to operate there, it’s going to be a problem for us in Afghanistan,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
The Pentagon is in the process of sending an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, the original front in the “war on terrorism” sparked by the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. They will be tasked primarily with clamping down on that border, a military official with specific knowledge of the deployment told CNN earlier this month.
Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN’s”State of the Union” the troops will also be there to safeguard the country’s upcoming presidential election. But that mission could be jeopardized by Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s recent call to move that vote up from August to April, Mullen said. CNN
If the US, NATO and ISAF forces cannot secure the borders and cannot eliminate the Taliban it should accept advisers from Pakistan. Pakistani soldiers saved the asses of US soldiers in Somalia and helped them in Africa and other places. This is the right time to help them in Afghanistan.
The US should take Mulla Umar’s offer of safe passage, negotiate a new government in Kabul, and institute a Marshall Plan for AfPak. Old rhetoric from the Bush era does not solve anything
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“I’m on a pretty tight timeline, right now, to get security forces there in order to provide the kind of security for the elections,” he said. “And so moving those dates to the left certainly generates a higher level of risk with respect to security for those elections, which we want to be free and fair as well as secure.”
Karzai was named the head of an interim Afghan government after the U.S.-led invasion that dislodged the Taliban, which ruled most of Afghanistan before the attacks and allowed al Qaeda to operate from its territory. He was elected to an interim term in 2002 and to a full term in 2004. That term ends in late May.
Karzai is the country’s first popularly elected president and has said he intends to run for a second term. He argues that the Afghan constitution requires an election at least 30 days before the end of his term, but opposition groups are crying foul.
But Karzaimay not have the authority to move up that vote, which an international commission set, Mullen said. He said the Karzai government’s inability to improve security and public services have contributed to “the situation that we’re in right now” — where the Taliban and its allies, including al Qaeda, are on the offensive.
Meanwhile, the war is spilling over into Pakistan, where the Taliban have long had a foothold in the tribal areas along the mountainous border. Its supporters have been battling Pakistani troops in the region for more than two years, and the United States is believed to be responsible for periodic airstrikes that target suspected militant leaders.
Neither Gates nor Mullen would discuss those strikes, which Pakistani officials say are mostly conducted by armed surveillance drones. But Gates said Pakistan now believes the border area “is as big a risk to the stability of Pakistan as it is a problem for us in Afghanistan.”
European, Pakistani and Afghan officials are taking part in the administration’s strategy review, and the process could be done in “a few weeks,” Gates said.
U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, a senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said the administration is “buying political time” by sending additional units to Afghanistan while it completes a new plan.
President Barack Obama was highly critical of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which he called a “strategic blunder” during the 2008 campaign. Because of that, Abercrombie said, “He’s very, very wary of committing the same kind of tragic move in Afghanistan.” CNN
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