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| Taliban neither Pakistan's nor Afghanistan's future: Akram |
| 2006-12-18 |
| Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Munir Akram, said on Saturday that Islamabad had a vital interest in peace in Afghanistan and has deployed a large number of troops to prevent illegal cross-border movements, while pointing to internal reasons that recent international reports say have led to insurgency by Afghans in their country. In a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, in response to a recent article written by renowned political commentator Fareed Zakaria (The Afghan Key: Musharraf), Ambassador Akram wrote: “Pakistan has a vital strategic interest in peace in Afghanistan. The Taliban are not the future for Pakistan or Afghanistan.” Pakistan, he said, had deployed 80,000 troops to prevent illegal cross-border movements and in 80 operations conducted against terrorists has lost 600 soldiers. “Preventing cross-border movement is a responsibility of Afghanistan and international forces share. They should match our deployments on the other side.” He then referred to a UN report released in September, which noted that the “insurgency is being conducted by Afghans inside Afghanistan, with five distinct leadership centres, all within Afghanistan”. He stressed that the UN report “identifies the interlinked sources of insecurity in Afghanistan: an absence of good governance, pervasive corruption, Pashtun political alienation, the drug economy, failure to deliver economic and social development, and resurgence of the Taliban”. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Question is, would a worldwide depression benefit them? If yes, look out. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-12-18 19:40 |
| #5 Oil is oil, the only parts of the world less dependent than the US on imported oil are the parts which import less of their total consumption than the US does. The risk of sending the entire world into another Great Depression is great indeed. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-18 19:06 |
| #4 only then can we go after the Saudi princelings without sending the entire world into a 1930s type depression. Simply put, they hold the oil gun against our heads. Yeah, that's a show stopper. I wuz talking to my cousin Kelly on the front stoop last Saturday and tried to explain that there's this littlestrip of land about 15 km wide and about 'ye long where most of the oil is, it's Shia! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-12-18 18:18 |
| #3 Gosh, trailing wife, is that kinda like the domino theory? I like it. Just a little faster, please. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2006-12-18 15:36 |
| #2 We can't directly go after the Saudis until Iran is settled, Sneaze Shaiting3550, because most of the world is more dependent on Saudi oil than we are -- and the two countries produce something approximating a third of current petroleum pumped. Iraq is now producing something like 80% of what it was before the invasion, and apparently is something like 80% pacified, if I understand correctly. Next will have to be Iran, because of that whole nuclear bomb thingy. Then once that is settled and back to reasonable production levels, only then can we go after the Saudi princelings without sending the entire world into a 1930s type depression. Simply put, they hold the oil gun against our heads. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-12-18 13:58 |
| #1 If the Saudi financed recruitment through Madrasas and Islamofascist political parties is allowed to continue, then the terror war will not end. However, our insane insistence on using tactics that make war unwinnable, will cause defeat by pullout. We couldn't destroy the Soviets during the Cold War, because they possessed nuclear deterrence. Now with terrorists within our midst - and increasing through insane immigration laws and mosque based jihad recruitment - we have embraced the same Containment policy that was forced on us by Soviet fait accomplis. We don't have to contain Muslim aggression; they are weak. But if we continue to fight unwinnable wars while nation-building with Iranian and Saudi surrogates, then the mortal Muslim enemy will strengthen. |
| Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-12-18 06:16 |