Monitoring the Think Tanks: What are the intellectuals saying.
Bluster before Exit: Obama’s last hurrah—30,000 troops “for 18 months” then withdrawal by 2011
Michael Moore to President Obama
Obama’s mini surge: Withdrawal in 2011! as predicted by Rupee News
Delhi’s worst nightmare: A “Taliban” (Pakhtun) government in Kabul
Obama’s new Grand bargain: More aid, intelligence cooperation & a few threats
Perpetual Mimitic War: Strategy for continued Failure in Afghanistan
Obama’s Afghan surge without robust implementation of an “Exit Plan” is a ‘Straightjacket’ named quagmire & defeat
Can the drama of a Joe Biden’s “resignation” end the Afghan war fiasco?
Pakistan: Hillary Clinton still doesn’t have a clue
Pakistan: Why Ms. Clinton doesn’t get it
Hillary Clinton admits to US support for Bin Laden & creation of Taliban
The rude US Ambassador Patterson in hot soup
“The best way to get out of Afghanistan fast is (for) people to think we’re staying.” Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
“There is no military success ultimately to Afghanistan. Senator John Kerry
Kerry Lugar Bill backlash: Pakistan rethinks Afghan policy & US alliance-Hit RAW hard in Afghanistan
Without speedy withdrawal–we are running the risk of replicating the fate of the Soviets” Mr. Brzezinski
Brzezinski: Don’t start new wars. Use diplomacy in Pakistan
“Can Karzai get away with a stolen election”- Carter
Admiral Mullen is still wrong
The crusty specious, Admiral is mistaken about Afghanistan
Obama’s Afghan timeout vs. Mullen’s surge
Afghan temp Surge: McChrystal malarkey hides incompetence of NATO, ISAF & US forces
McChrystal right on India: Delhi must scale back Afghan operations
“Taliban’s Winning Strategy in Afghanistan”: Overcoming “culture of poverty”
The US occupation has not brought security to Afghan women
Afghanistan’s Bravest Woman Malalai Joya: “Taliban are logistically & militarily growing stronger as each day dawns.” “Afghan women and men are not ‘liberated’ at all”
Bluster before exit: US capitulates to Afghan Taliban: Negotiating retreat schedule
The silent “K” in Holbrooke’s portfolio
AfPak countercurrents beyond the Oxus to AfPakAzUzbKazTurkKyr-istan
Tick Tock Tick Tock-2011: Obama’s shrinking Afghan timeline
Truth not Orwellian propaganda: Best article on Afghanistan anywhere
US bluff: Other arduous US Supply Chain routes to Afghanistan not feasible
Afghanistan fiasco: Cleaning up the Am-Brit failures in Kabul again
Solutions to “Obama’s Vietnam”–AfPak
David Kilcullen incessant paranoid hallucinating Pakistanphobic rhetoric destroys his credibility
Obama must avoid creating a backlash in neighboring Pakistan by heavy-handed U.S. military intervention there: David Kilcullen
Can Obama pull US out of the Afghan quicksand? Choosing China & Pakistan over Bharat (aka India)
NATO not buying the Obama Doctrine or surge after Surge?
Afghanistan & Pakistan: Can the US Prevail? No!
Fixing Afpak: Inability to implement exit strategy spells inevitable US military catastrophe in Kabul
Obama’s sane policy should be implemented– Negotiate with the Taliban
Betrayals, blackmail in Bakiyev– cloaking failure as success hiding the defeat, declaring victory, withdrawing from Afghanistan within 18 months
Obama’s new policy was supposed to be a Marshal Plan & end to bombing raids in Pakistan
Convincing the US tin ear of the Pakistani point of view
Rahm Emanuel blames the “Ho Chi Minh Trail” for Afghan defeat
Obama’s Neocon: Bruce Riedel’s rancid racism against Pakistan is bad US history
Bigoted Bruce Riedel’s diatribes not valid for Pakistan & Afghanistan?
Mr. Bruce Riedel’s irrational rhetoric exacerbated US-Pakistani relations
Obama team’s consensus: Much of Pakistan’s problems originate in Afghanistan
Obama advisor Weinbaum focus on talks resurrected in new Afghan strategy
Ahmed Rashid’s bad advice about Pakistan
Afghanistan: Con man Ahmed Rashid sold the America down the river–and made a buck doing it
Afghan Surge fiasco: Ahmed Rashid’s bad advice
Obama adviser insights into Afghan policy: Result same old same old
Why troops surges in Afghanistan are doomed to failure?
Rand report: End GWOT. Defeat Al-Qaeda with police & Dollars
Hindu Kush Curtain Call: The End Game in Afghanistan
Harvard questions: Afghanistan Lost? Barnett Rubin & Maleeha Lodhi solutions to quagmire
The Pakistani perspective: Peace deals only way to precipitate face saving for US & Obama’s smooth Exit strategy from Afghanistan
After NATO rejection Obama has few options left in Afghanistan
Pakistan First by Shireen Mazari: The devastating affects of appeasing India and kowtowing to the USA
Pakistan to US: No pay-No play: Tough lessons in geography!
People talk glibly of ‘the total disarmament of the frontier tribes’ as being the obvious policy…but to obtain it would be as painful and as tedious an undertaking as to extract the stings of a swarm of hornets, with naked fingers.” Winston Churchill
PEANUTS: Puny US Aid to Pakistan is too little too late. Marshall Plan, & Trade concessions missing
Graveyard of Empires: AfPak-TurkTaj-UzbKaz-AzKyr -istan
Obama’s “Vietnam”: Khyber & Hindu Kush
Afghanistan:– Pakistan’s Eminent Domain
“India supporting the terrorists in tribal areas & Balochistan” FM Qureshi
India’s dark shadow on Afghanistan
Evidence against India-ISI Chief confronts Leon Panetta about stopping CIA/RAW Terror in Pakistan
