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Afghanistan
US war on terror failed because sanctuaries in Pakistan remained intact: Karzai
2016-04-28
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
has said the US-led war on terror failed because the krazed killers’ sanctuaries remained intact in Pakistain.

During an interview with the Russia Today television network, Karzai said Washington should focus on cutting down krazed killers’ financial sources and training grounds if the country remains sincerely determined to fight terror in all its forms, and its intentions are true.

"The war against terrorism will not succeed unless we fight it in the sanctuaries, in the training grounds, in the motivational factors, in the financial resources to them," the former President said.

Karzai further added that the reason the United States and its allies failed to provide lasting security to Afghanistan and to do away with extremism and with radicalism is because they began to fight it in Afghan villages, where terrorism wasn’t there anyway in the first place.

"They did not go to the sanctuaries, which were in Pakistain. They did not go to the motivational factors, which were in many other places. They did not go to the financial sources of it, which they knew were where they were," Karzai added.

Karzai reiterated "If this war is genuinely against terrorism, if the United States wants to succeed, then we know by now that success will not come unless you go to the sanctuaries, you go to the financial sources and all other factors."

This is not the first the Afghan officials have criticized Pakistain for remaining reckless in acting against the sanctuaries of the Afghan anti-government armed Death Eater groups using the Pak soil for their operations in Afghanistan, specifically the Haqqani terrorist network and Taliban group.

President Mohammad Ashraf called on Pakistain to take actions against the Taliban group leadership based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
and Quetta city, warning that Afghanistan will take diplomatic measures and take the issue to the international organizations, including the UN Security Council if no measures were taken.

Posted by:Fred

#5  Sanctuaries in the Vietnam War had the same effect. We never learn.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-04-28 21:25  

#4  Hard to win when you're fighting the wrong enemy. The real enemies all along were Pakistan and Soddy Arabia.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-04-28 16:47  

#3  Karzai is only continuing to scratch the surface. Of course the ISI and Afghans have been fighting a proxy war...and of course the Afghan war lords played us for the fool... The deliberate indifference of our leaders over there and here is criminal. We paid the war lords for the privilege of fighting them...and allowed the Pakis to rape our supply chain. They need to pay...it ain't over.
Posted by: Spike Spigum1824   2016-04-28 10:49  

#2  All roads lead to Beijing and the company store. The account will never be paid, thus compliance to the wishes and dictates of the store is generally viewed as mandatory.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-04-28 03:58  

#1  That is a symptom of an underlying failure of nerve of our politicians.
Posted by: Nguard   2016-04-28 00:39  

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