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The frustrating failures of United States in Afghanistan are forcing it to unjustifiably place the blame on Pakistan.
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TerraN_EmpirE
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BY | January 21, 2018 | [email protected] |
A team of several jihadists assaulted the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan yesterday. Afghan security forces finally ended the siege earlier today, after more than 12 hours.
Initial casualty reports, including those issued by the Afghan government, said that several people were killed. However, subsequent accounts indicate that the casualty toll is much higher. It is not clear how many people perished, but the latest estimates indicate that more than one dozen people, and perhaps many more, died as a result. Dozens of others were evacuated from the hotel and brought to nearby hospitals for treatment.
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One man's resistance is another man's terrorism. Just like how Turkey and the US are at odds on the Kurds, so is Pakistan and the US on the issue of the Taliban. The Pakistanis cannot afford to greatly upset the Taliban seeing as they have significant influence in Pakistan's tribal areas.
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To summarize
Pakistan: Ignore these Taliban because they leave us alone. even if they are fighting you leave them be. but those guys those guys you can kill.
Pakistan: Ignore these Taliban because they leave us alone. even if they are fighting you leave them be. but those guys those guys you can kill.
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Wrong! Read the article and no need to change the narrative on this forum. Perhaps this is what you hear from FOX world. We have Pakistani members and they need be respected. Also respect the "Rule of Law" and the US is not above the law.
"The Pakistani government has condemned numerous US drone strikes in the past, calling them “a violation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Are you saying it is OK for Turkey to conduct drone assassination of Gulen? Same thing.
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TerraN_EmpirE
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In the past for a Time The Pakistani Government happily allowed the Drone operations especially when "Bad Taliban" were the Target. After a point of Time they began shifting and condemning.
Afghanistan is the US's main priority, The insurgency's know this, they also know that they can jump jurisdictions. An old tactic, When it gets to hot they jump the border to a "Safe Zone" This allows them to resupply, rearm, rest, recover, plan new operations and prolong the fight. They have done that since day one. That prolongs the fight. If you allow them to remain unharassed that gives them a stronger support and prolongs the conflict. This is a lesson form both successful and failed counter insurgency operations.
Afghanistan is the US's main priority, The insurgency's know this, they also know that they can jump jurisdictions. An old tactic, When it gets to hot they jump the border to a "Safe Zone" This allows them to resupply, rearm, rest, recover, plan new operations and prolong the fight. They have done that since day one. That prolongs the fight. If you allow them to remain unharassed that gives them a stronger support and prolongs the conflict. This is a lesson form both successful and failed counter insurgency operations.
If one step away from the details and blame game, and look from a strategic high ground, one can easily see the parallel between Afghanistan and Syria. The same thing played out, that is old allies find new partners and dumped old partners. US ignored Turkey's concern of being broken apart by embracing the new friend the Kurds, pushing Turkey away just like US embracing India to counter China (the old semi ally against USSR) ignoring Pakistan's fundamental concern of a stronger and influential India in the area. It is unfair to blame Pakistan for what it is doing, it is doing whatever it can to survive just like Turkey or any country. US has its concern of Russian influence in ME, so does Turkey, so does Pakistan. Everybody has their priority, but just now, Pakistan (Turkey) has different or even opposite priority.
This is why pressure (with-hold of aid) and threat won't convince anybody.
This is why pressure (with-hold of aid) and threat won't convince anybody.
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For the untrained eye, most would have missed what has taken place in Syria. There was mass influx of foreign fighters that came from various parts of the world, including the West. The fundamental commonality between these terrorists is that they are Wahhabi-Salafi by doctrine. That too a very dirty doctrine which has no norms, but a constantly evolving predatory germ. Indoctrinated men from Libya, Britain, Egypt, Tunisia, France, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere had descended into Syria. The question to ask Is, who in the hell allow them in there? Turkey?! A NATO member state!! Or Iraq?! Where American led coalition forces had been occupying since 2003. Who armed them? Who funded them? And who continues to assist them?
One has to ask, whether there is any sense to all of this or just another farce run by hegemonic powers bent on seeing the Middle East turn into a blood bath. How in the world does a Syria-Iraq based ISIS, manage to make their way across to Afghanistan?! I mean is everyone having a siesta in Syria? Who is responsible for allowing those ISIS scum to flee Syria?
In so far as the Afghanistan is concerned, one thing is for sure. Pukhtuns can ill-afford to let foreign fighters run amock in on home soil. Doesn't matter if they are Muslim or want to fight or have money or their uncle is a rich primate. There is a significant level of proliferation of foreign fighters moving freely between countries. As for Pakistan, well they know that once U.S leaves (cannot stay in Afghanistan forever), there is nothing that would stop foreign fighters from making their way into Afghanistan again (as they are doing currently, despite US-NATO occupation for the past 17 years). If there is any shred of truth that Haqqanis have any link with those Al-Qaeda scum. Then Haqqanis need to sever those links immediately and decisively.
If there is any evidence that links Haqqani network to AQ, then Pakistan must ensure the former's disqualification from it's own territory. AQ is a parasite that needs to be cut off from any and all hosts. And thats the crux of the matter, wherever AQ & ISIS are involved, those freedom movements become contaminated. What follows is chaos, carnage and utter distortion and corruption of the truth.
And one last thing, for all those who have no clue about how things work in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pukhtuns (majority population of Afghanistan and Pakistan's Pukhtunkhwa Province). As such its based on this demographic that the movement between countries of Pukhtuns is accommodated by Pakistan. And it is due to such circumstances, that Haqqanis would've ever managed to slip into Pakistan's territory. This whole ca-ca-me-mee about giving Haqqani network (as if by calling it that, somehow makes them an organized crime syndicate), is a distortion of what is in reality and what's being made up by western media and government.
Makes one wonder, if the West is actually after the Truth or the one distorting it?!
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