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| India-Pakistan |
| And if the Yanks don't go home? |
| 2010-03-06 |
| Foreign policy commentators in New Delhi and the Generals and strategic establishment in Rawalpindi-Islamabad are working on the same assumption: That the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is inevitable, inescapable and imminent. The Pakistani Generals have been quick on the draw. They have begun the scramble for a post-withdrawal Kabul even before the Americans have actually begun their retreat. In the short term, the Pakistani Afghan strategy has three components. First, drive the Indians out of Afghan- istan. Second, weaken President Hamid Karzai. Third, play factional politics within the Afghan Taliban so that the Haqqani militia, considered closest to the Inter-Services Intelligence, emerges victorious. February's attacks on Indian targets in Kabul were a pointer in this direction. They were believed to have been executed by the Haqqani faction to further the ISI mission of scaring away Indian economic assistance and capacity-building efforts. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #1 Over There by George M. Cohan America's obituary as a global power Nope, don't think so..... If we have the will ... we can... And ZERO is out. |
| Posted by: Black Bart Sliling9393 2010-03-06 14:46 |