Archive for August, 2011
Afghanistan News
The US President Barack Obama has dismissed the commander of the US forces in Afghanistan Gen Stanley McChrystal, ostensibly attributable to rude behavior, however truly as a result of a scapegoat was required for an increasing inept war effort.
The Afghanistan news from the bottom isn’t encouraging. Obamas strategy isn’t operating and also the administration is craving for face saving disengagement. Obama is craving for a deal to extricate the US from Afghanistan and is relying additional and additional on Pakistan and also the ISI to fight his battles.
This has dangerous consequences for the region as an entire and also the USA especially. The US is perforce accepting Pakistan because the new viable partner in Afghanistan to President Hamid Karzai. Initial Phase. Pakistan says that it will meditate and convey around Sirajuddin Haqqani an ally of Al- Qaeda,who runs a significant a part of the insurgency in Afghanistan into an influence sharing arrangement.
It should not be forgotten that the Haqqani network and also the warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar are among the largest assets of the ISI. It’s conveniently forgotten that Hekmatyar currently a sworn enemy of the USA received billions from the CIA throughout the war with Soviet Russia.
The exceptional factor is that the USA and Obama has been hood winked by Pakistan. Whereas the ISI claims to fight the insurgents, however the protégés of the ISI are killing yank troopers with impunity. Therefore the USA is fighting the terribly individuals that it’s indirectly funding.
When the History of the Afghan war is written, it’ll be elucidated that the one single moment the Americans lost the war was throughout the siege of Kunduz in 2001. At that point the rampaging Northern alliance had a lot of the highest brass of the Taliban cornered in Kunduz. Like Ripley’s believe it or not the CIA approved an airlift by the Pakistanis and a minimum of a thousand of the Taliban leadership was allowed to flee. They were principally mid level Pakistan Army and ISI offers in turbans. That single event sealed the fate of the war in Afghanistan.