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Karzai urges West to target Pakistan

Afghan president says neighbour is cooperating with Taliban

by macleans.ca on Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:55am - 0 Comments

Afghan President Hamid Karzai told a Thursday news conference his country’s Western allies are unwilling to move against Pakistan, which is allegedly supporting the Taliban. “It is a different question whether Afghanistan has the ability to tackle this, but our allies have this capability,” he said. “The question now is why they are not taking action?” Tensions with Pakistan are running high in Afghanistan after documents released by WikiLeaks appeared to show cooperation between Pakistani authorities and the Taliban. Karzai also used the news conference to slam WikiLeaks for releasing information on Afghan informants cooperating with NATO forces, calling it “extremely irresponsible and shocking.”

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Blacktop

Yeah, sure, and spread this ill-begotten conflict further? I maintained at the start that we should never be in there, get out already, get out now. A Lib mistake at the start carried forward by Cons.

History as far back as you want to go shows incursion after incursion with the Afghans reverting to themselves, like a wound closing up . When NATO (ha ha) leaves it will be like a sand castle on the beach with an incoming tide. Meanwhile we have lost 150 (and counting) wonderful young men and women who mistook this clarion call to duty as something constructive. Now Karzai wants to extend that lunacy to the Paks?

The only justifiable war is in self-defence or helping a friend in self-defence (a la WWII, not Viet Nam, and certainly not Afghanistan.
Anyway, the bogeyman will not be found.

We know how phoney the US "war on terrorism" – so much so that they took a shortcut through Iraq that had nothing to do with terrorism and all to do with oil and goodies in the pockets of the connected – Bush, Romney etc.

We should tell Karzai to get lost in the Pakky mountains.