Thursday, September 22, 2011

Afghanistan Marching Towards Civil War



Afghanistan Is Lurching Towards A Civil War -- The Telegraph

The assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president, who was trying to woo the Taliban makes peace talks even less likely.

If Nato’s strategy in Afghanistan seems familiar, that may be because it increasingly seems borrowed from the Black Knight of Monty Python fame, who, after losing both arms, insists that “it’s just a flesh wound”.

When Afghan insurgents laid waste to government buildings in Kabul last week, the US ambassador explained, perhaps in case we’d misunderstood the 24-hour siege, that “this really is not a very big deal”. A dayhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif earlier he’d lamented that “the biggest problem in Kabul is traffic”. Apparently not.

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My Comment
: An Afghan civil war funded and supported by hostile outside forces (i.e. India and Pakistan, Russia and China). Should the U.S. and NATO remain to defuse this? Personally .... I have trouble seeing how they can.

This commentary is my must read post for today.

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