America, get serious now. Increase your troops presence in Afghanistan. Stop siding with the corrupt regeimes of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Fund them properly and monitor where the billions are going. Apprise your citizens and the world of what is the truth. No WMD (like in Iraq) mumbo jumbo.Remember, to claim that you are policing the world, you need to be honest and sincere in your goal. Half hearted attempt where you do not hold the high moral ground gets you nothing. Your monster (Taliban) is out of control. Remember, you created it to defeat the USSR and later abandoned Afghanistan and Pakistan.

If it were not for Pakistan, US/NATO would not have entered Afghanistan and dislodged them from power.

Pakistan may be accused of being a double-dealer but so is US/NATO, who fail in their efforts in Afghanistan and then just blame Pakistan instead.

@Amy

You want NATO to enter Pakistan? Sure if NATO countries can cough up the troops for it. They don’t even want to send any more to Afghanistan.

US/ NATO must win cooperation of other Afghan neighbors to win this war. Russia is a good beginning. I would also like Iran to be involved in Afghan development. Currently through Pakistan is the sole route to sea port. Opening up the Iraninan part for Afghanistan will remove that dependency. India is already building a road from Afghanistan to Iran. An alternate trade route will do a lot of good to Afghan farmers. India is and always been a big market for Afghan fruits and dry fruits and a alternate trade route will provide access to Afghans and Indian business without going through Pakistan. This would certainly help in resolving poppy problem.

Corruption is a malice everywhere. We can only minimize it but can never remove it. What we need is to provide development opportunities that surpass level of corruption. Removing Karzai will be a big mistake. His govt may be corrupt but does provide some sort of leadership to Afghans. His departure will be a kind of deja-vu of early 1990s.

I am glad that you can see the background processes in Talib-Pak saga

—You’re jumpin to conclusions – & the block could be tech. cause there’s no need for me to be abusive to you – but your mindset is telling…

If your reply was blocked there has to be a reason, isn’t it? I’m not interested in mud slinging matches on the blog which often turn in to plain abuse and one-upmanship.

Thanks.

However, whatever the outcome from the current situation in Afghanistan, be it a change in Kazrai Govt. or NATO forces, I don’t see the world will ever be terror free, there are lots of Osamas waiting for destruction.

This is not like one Hitler and many Nazis, this is one Osama many Talibans becoming the next Osama.

Nikhil,
– People who talk about Kazrai, do they have a eminent leader to lead.
US does not want another Iraq to happen, therefore I think they are supporting Kazrai until they see some good results.

—reply blocked – couldn’t post a befitting reply to your arbitrary comments.