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Flight Paths out of Afghanistan

Tariq Ali, Asia Times | November 19, 2008

Afghanistan has been at war for almost 30 years. ++ The possibility of US exit strategies hovers on the horizon but winning the war would require carpet-bombing of southern Afghanistan. ++ Many Afghans hostile to the Taliban still support the resistance. ++ The British ambassador to Kabul considers the war lost. ++ General Petraeus will not be able to work miracles in Afghanistan. ++ The main task should be creation of social infrastructure and the preservation of peace. ++ Only breaking with previous policy offers a viable future.

 

 
 
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Afghanistan's majority population are the ethnic Pashtuns. These Pashtuns - who are in the government of Karzai and who also fighting on the frontline - will never agree to any accord with the occupiers. The West and its brain - America cannot change these people's mentality nor the code of live. The only solution for Afghanistan is to get its land from Pakistan taken by British empire in the past and creat the so-called "The Great Afghanistan". And the second condition is for the Afghans and especially for the Pashtun ethnic group in Afghanistan to educate themselves and not get hostile to other ethnic Afghan minorities or else it would be - as it has been, even these days a sitution where the neighbours of Afghanista will take advantage of it and use the minorities for their own use. And because of this intervention and interference Afghanistan has been going through civil war, insecurity, puppet-governments as well as social, ethnic, economic, religious and political divisions. So for the US military stratigists the way out is now or it will become much more difficult to get out. Rober Gates is still in charge of the CIA and Obama with his generals will not make any miracles in Afghanistan. Only Afghans can solve their problems not the outsiders.
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