"India is engaged in creating disturbance in Pakistan. It currently has an extensive diplomatic presence in Afghanistan. It includes the Indian embassy in Kabul and four consulates in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat. These Indian diplomatic missions serve as launching pads for undertaking covert operations against Pakistan from Afghan soil. Particularly, the Indian consulates in Kandahar and Jalalabad and their embassy in Kabul are used for clandestine activities inside Pakistan in general and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Baluchistan in particular. Indian consulates in Afghanistan are printing fake Pakistani currency, using it to recruit poverty-stricken Afghans to carry out acts of sabotage and terrorism on Pakistani territory. "
http://pakobserver.net/200911/09/Articles02.asp
Since the region including Afghanistan, and all of Central Asia, is now undergoing a Cold War (see
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6913250.ece )
so we can expect lots of such 'proxy war' games, myths, propaganda, and consulates blowing up.
Meanwhile the news is obama's going to send 34,000 soldiers over. Sounds like a lot to sacrifice for a cause no one in this country understands- we are not used to being Proxies in somebody else's Cold war- but fair's fair-
]]>The incentive structure of capitalism is not going to work with them- any guesses as to what will take its place?
The reason Dems run to the center is because they want to win, which is why Repubs run to the right.
We must be, in the context of relatively recent history, a right-leaning nation, that will express these preferences in the face of any but the greatest disasters.
]]>Maybe instead of enlisting on the Army, you should persuade the Pakistanis to"pressure" these Taliban you're talking about:
]]>1) If pakistan needs a stable Afghanistan to stabilize itself;
2) If our own war against Taliban in Afghanistan will prevent them (Taliban) from seizing control of the country again;
3)if a Taliban-led Afghanistan will threaten Pakistan (this restates 1 in slightly different terms);
4) then WHY is Pakistan unwilling to consider our cause its own, out of self-interest?
]]>Whenever something goes wrong and people die, it's always 'someone else's problem' to deal with. You can see extensive evidence of that all over this blog.
]]>It depresses that no one sees the relevance of Kurtz' "choice of nightmares" here, or maybe it's my own fault in expressing my ideas poorly, since I have seen others write perspicaciously on this point.
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