Comments on: America in Afghanistan until 2024 ? http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/08/22/america-in-afghanistan-until-2024/ Lifting the veil on conflict, culture and politics Sat, 04 May 2013 12:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: pakistan http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/08/22/america-in-afghanistan-until-2024/comment-page-1/#comment-6872 pakistan Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:18:42 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/?p=3405#comment-6872 @Sanjeev Have you ever given thoughts to the alternative course for the President to follow which is going to provide jobs for the brave american soldiers when they return home sooner than later? This is not stated in your articles and shoul be considered in future articles, just a suggestion. Mr Obama has announced a plan but the republicans are not going to support him simply to retire the afro with a one time presidency. At least he was given a chance to live in white house one time. Mr Obama could have closed down the torture chambers, the torture bases abroad but for employment problems which the military veterans face due to recession at home. No chance for the bases to close down in Japan, Germany and midddle east either. Rex Minor @Sanjeev

Have you ever given thoughts to the alternative course for the President to follow which is going to provide jobs for the brave american soldiers when they return home sooner than later? This is not stated in your articles and shoul be considered in future articles, just a suggestion. Mr Obama has announced a plan but the republicans are not going to support him simply to retire the afro with a one time presidency. At least he was given a chance to live in white house one time.

Mr Obama could have closed down the torture chambers, the torture bases abroad but for employment problems which the military veterans face due to recession at home. No chance for the bases to close down in Japan, Germany and midddle east either.

Rex Minor

]]> By: pakistan http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/08/22/america-in-afghanistan-until-2024/comment-page-1/#comment-6865 pakistan Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:05:01 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/?p=3405#comment-6865 The question is an academic one! The yanks have been defeated by the afghan resistance and their demise as a world power is unlikely to take a pause; their credit life line is in the hands of Saudis and the Chinese! American people have been let down by their leader who is desperately trying to put up a show before he vacates his current post. What a sad end for the imperial power to go down the path of the Roman power. Any afghan who wants foreign soldiers to stay in their land to defend him or his family is a bogus Afghan national and imposter. Rex Minor The question is an academic one! The yanks have been defeated by the afghan resistance and their demise as a world power is unlikely to take a pause; their credit life line is in the hands of Saudis and the Chinese! American people have been let down by their leader who is desperately trying to put up a show before he vacates his current post. What a sad end for the imperial power to go down the path of the Roman power.
Any afghan who wants foreign soldiers to stay in their land to defend him or his family is a bogus Afghan national and imposter.

Rex Minor

]]> By: sensiblepatriot http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/08/22/america-in-afghanistan-until-2024/comment-page-1/#comment-6853 sensiblepatriot Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:04:53 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/?p=3405#comment-6853 kEiThZ, I have serious doubts on this. As the drawdown begins and more and more military personnel are taken back, the lesser the possibility for America to influence the socio-political events of Afghanistan. The question of when American troops get off Afghnistan is only academic in nature now, as their influence declines by the day. Rather than a sudden withdrawal ( sudden withdrawal happened before with American troops in Vietnam ) Americans are hoping for an honorable exit and in all likeliness Taliban are expected to overpower the feeble Afghan government and take over Kabul. We do not know in which form it will be, but in the long term unless the regional actors come to some kind of consensus on Afghanistan (especially India and Pakistan) the region is very likely to fall again into the civil war we witnessed few decades back. Somehow I believe, If one terrorist attack on America is traced back to Pakistan. America would suppress the truth, build its economy, secure its country from inside, gets adjusted to take terrorist strikes like India (we call it low equilibrium on terrorism, accepting terrorist attacks with low casualties) and practices a containment strategy against Pakistan . Of course thinks might be different if Republicans come to power, they will come back and bomb the Right country this time which has shaped the terror industry to such horrific proportions. kEiThZ, I have serious doubts on this. As the drawdown begins and more and more military personnel are taken back, the lesser the possibility for America to influence the socio-political events of Afghanistan. The question of when American troops get off Afghnistan is only academic in nature now, as their influence declines by the day. Rather than a sudden withdrawal ( sudden withdrawal happened before with American troops in Vietnam ) Americans are hoping for an honorable exit and in all likeliness Taliban are expected to overpower the feeble Afghan government and take over Kabul. We do not know in which form it will be, but in the long term unless the regional actors come to some kind of consensus on Afghanistan (especially India and Pakistan) the region is very likely to fall again into the civil war we witnessed few decades back.
Somehow I believe, If one terrorist attack on America is traced back to Pakistan. America would suppress the truth, build its economy, secure its country from inside, gets adjusted to take terrorist strikes like India (we call it low equilibrium on terrorism, accepting terrorist attacks with low casualties) and practices a containment strategy against Pakistan . Of course thinks might be different if Republicans come to power, they will come back and bomb the Right country this time which has shaped the terror industry to such horrific proportions.

]]> By: sensiblepatriot http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/08/22/america-in-afghanistan-until-2024/comment-page-1/#comment-6852 sensiblepatriot Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:04:50 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/?p=3405#comment-6852 kEiThZ, I have serious doubts on this. As the drawdown begins and more and more military personnel are taken back, the lesser the possibility for America to influence the socio-political events of Afghanistan. The question of when American troops get off Afghnistan is only academic in nature now, as their influence declines by the day. Rather than a sudden withdrawal ( sudden withdrawal happened before with American troops in Vietnam ) Americans are hoping for an honorable exit and in all likeliness Taliban are expected to overpower the feeble Afghan government and take over Kabul. We do not know in which form it will be, but in the long term unless the regional actors come to some kind of consensus on Afghanistan (especially India and Pakistan) the region is very likely to fall again into the civil war we witnessed few decades back. Somehow I believe, If one terrorist attack on America is traced back to Pakistan. America would suppress the truth, build its economy, secure its country from inside, gets adjusted to take terrorist strikes like India (we call it low equilibrium on terrorism, accepting terrorist attacks with low casualties) and practices a containment strategy against Pakistan . Of course thinks might be different if Republicans come to power, they will come back and bomb the Right country this time which has shaped the terror industry to such horrific proportions. kEiThZ, I have serious doubts on this. As the drawdown begins and more and more military personnel are taken back, the lesser the possibility for America to influence the socio-political events of Afghanistan. The question of when American troops get off Afghnistan is only academic in nature now, as their influence declines by the day. Rather than a sudden withdrawal ( sudden withdrawal happened before with American troops in Vietnam ) Americans are hoping for an honorable exit and in all likeliness Taliban are expected to overpower the feeble Afghan government and take over Kabul. We do not know in which form it will be, but in the long term unless the regional actors come to some kind of consensus on Afghanistan (especially India and Pakistan) the region is very likely to fall again into the civil war we witnessed few decades back.
Somehow I believe, If one terrorist attack on America is traced back to Pakistan. America would suppress the truth, build its economy, secure its country from inside, gets adjusted to take terrorist strikes like India (we call it low equilibrium on terrorism, accepting terrorist attacks with low casualties) and practices a containment strategy against Pakistan . Of course thinks might be different if Republicans come to power, they will come back and bomb the Right country this time which has shaped the terror industry to such horrific proportions.

]]> By: kEiThZ http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/08/22/america-in-afghanistan-until-2024/comment-page-1/#comment-6842 kEiThZ Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:08:29 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/?p=3405#comment-6842 Whoever believed the yanks would have every last boot off the ground in the next few years was a fool to begin with. That's not how military operations and drawdowns work. Not just that, but I highly doubt the Afghans will want to be thrown to the wolves. They will want and need at least some support over the next few years as they build up the country and their own military capabilities. Whoever believed the yanks would have every last boot off the ground in the next few years was a fool to begin with. That’s not how military operations and drawdowns work.

Not just that, but I highly doubt the Afghans will want to be thrown to the wolves. They will want and need at least some support over the next few years as they build up the country and their own military capabilities.

]]> By: Mekeritrig http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/08/22/america-in-afghanistan-until-2024/comment-page-1/#comment-6840 Mekeritrig Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:12:58 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/?p=3405#comment-6840 For a while, it looked like Obama was in danger of keeping one of his promises. For a while, it looked like Obama was in danger of keeping one of his promises.

]]> By: Andvari http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/08/22/america-in-afghanistan-until-2024/comment-page-1/#comment-6839 Andvari Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:39:47 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/?p=3405#comment-6839 India is the 5th largest donor of funds to Afghanistan. China wants to play a larger role in the region. Give Afghanistan to India, and Pakistan to China, and we support India in the region. We get out of Af-Pak, and let China keep its backward, dissolute nuclear neighbor Pakistan in line, along with that other failed nation North Korea. India is the 5th largest donor of funds to Afghanistan. China wants to play a larger role in the region. Give Afghanistan to India, and Pakistan to China, and we support India in the region.

We get out of Af-Pak, and let China keep its backward, dissolute nuclear neighbor Pakistan in line, along with that other failed nation North Korea.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/08/22/america-in-afghanistan-until-2024/comment-page-1/#comment-6838 Anonymous Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:17:10 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/?p=3405#comment-6838 This is great news for the majority of Afghans! I as an Afghan welcome the news. For the first time the Afghan will not be at the mercy of meddling neighbours. This will give us an opportunity in the future to teach these neighbours a lesson in what it's like to be at the receiving end of poking ones nose in other countries affairs. Sher Shah Suri This is great news for the majority of Afghans! I as an Afghan welcome the news. For the first time the Afghan will not be at the mercy of meddling neighbours. This will give us an opportunity in the future to teach these neighbours a lesson in what it’s like to be at the receiving end of poking ones nose in other countries affairs.

Sher Shah Suri

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