may 24th, 2010
i doubt it. o'bummer is a committed appeaser of mohammedans.
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Paper no. 3822 | 20-May-2010 |
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AFGHANISTAN: IS THE UNITED STATES REVISING ITS STRATEGIC BLUEPRINT? By Dr. Subhash Kapila http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers39/paper3822.html1def Introductory Observations The United States for far too long and against all strategic logic predicated its strategic blueprint for Afghanistan on the assumption that the Pakistan Army would be able to reclaim Afghanistan to the degree that would ensure United States strategic comfort. Reading the tea-leaves in the wake of Afghanistan's President Karzai's visit to Washington from May 10 – May 14, 2010, even a bit prematurely, one is tempted to delve into the question as to whether the United States is revising its strategic blueprint on Afghanistan? President Obama in an assertion of personal presidential control over United States Afghan strategic blueprint seems to be veering around to the proposition that Afghanistan for American strategic comfort can be reclaimed only by the Afghanistan Government and not by a strategically opportunistic Pakistan Army. This proposition seems to have led President Obama to re-evaluate the US Afghan strategic blueprint in two significant ways. The first one was restoring respect for Afghanistan President Karzai and his legitimacy as the President of Afghanistan in internationally supervised elections. The second and more significant assertion was that the United States will not abandon Afghanistan and in its long term perspectives and strategy a sustainable US-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership was the end-aim. ... deleted |
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