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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject: Accept defeat by Taliban, Pakistan tells Nato |
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Accept defeat by Taliban, Pakistan tells Nato
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Senior Pakistani officials are urging Nato countries to accept the Taliban and work towards a new coalition government in Kabul that might exclude the Afghan president Hamid Karzai.
Canadian soldiers at the scene of a suicide bomb attack in Kandahar. Support in Canada for the Nato mission is fading
Pakistan's foreign minister, Khurshid Kasuri, has said in private briefings to foreign ministers of some Nato member states that the Taliban are winning the war in Afghanistan and Nato is bound to fail. He has advised against sending more troops.
Western ministers have been stunned. "Kasuri is basically asking Nato to surrender and to negotiate with the Taliban," said one Western official who met the minister recently.
The remarks were made on the eve of Nato's critical summit in Latvia. Lt Gen David Richards, the British general and Nato's force commander in Afghanistan, and the Dutch ambassador Daan Everts, its chief diplomat there, have spent five days in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, urging the Pakistani military to do more to reign in the Taliban. But they have received mixed messages.
Mr Karzai has long insisted that the Taliban sanctuaries and logistics bases are in Pakistan while Gen James Jones, the Supreme Commander of Nato, told the US Congress in September that the Taliban leadership is headquartered in the Pakistani city of Quetta.
advertisementLt Gen Ali Mohammed Jan Orakzai, governor of the volatile North West Frontier Province has stated publicly that the US, Britain and Nato have already failed in Afghanistan. "Either it is a lack of understanding or it is a lack of courage to admit their failures," he said recently.
Gen Orakzai insists that the Taliban represent the Pashtun population, Afghanistan's largest and Pakistan's second largest ethnic group, and they now lead a "national resistance" movement to throw out Western occupation forces, just as there is in Iraq.
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: |
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The withrawal from Iraq will be in that direction.
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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If I'm in charge (the Hyothetical King of War):
Leave Iraq, withraw to Afghanistan so to speak.
Withdraw all forces to allow for a Taliban stronghold to form, force the Taliban into a defensive posture then attack that position, then withdraw again, lather rinse repeat. This is basically the insurgent strategy only on seperate fronts so to speaks with diverse elements.
After Afghanistan is de-Talibanned, refocus, maybe Iraq or maybe just those small surgical Clintonian attacks on known terrorist training facilities. Stop relying on electronic intelligence gathering. Use coverts. Rebuild the intelligence system world wide, make sure you have infiltrated Frances intelligence agencies (they know more than anyone about everthing and the ydon't let us forget it).
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:16 am Post subject: |
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These must be the same "senior Pakistani officials" who have been supporting the Taliban for the last dozen years or so.
I'm eagerly awaiting their next press release- "India, just give up Kashmir" followed up a headline-grabber in the entertainment section "Angelina, don't bother- Pearl got what he deserved." |
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