To win in Afghanistan
Phan Kane
with Pakit soldiers in Pakistan, to eliminate Taliban and Al Qaeda. It
is impossible to exterminate the termites when you kill the one on
ground and leave their colony intact. US and South VN failed because
they let the VC have base in Laos.
Nusrat, Rowayton, Connecticut
<phan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
UN will take action according to its mandate if another country was
attacking it. As things stand most of the opposition to the Afghan
Govt. is home grown, as such it will be interference in the internal
affairs of this country if UN were to get involved, something which UN
charter specifically forbids.
Palin'sAnusRimmer
Oh, Yeah!
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Digest
The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
AFGHANISTAN
"Taliban assaults kill 16 national police"
Taliban fighters attacked checkpoints in northern and southern
Afghanistan on Monday, killing 16 members of the Afghan National
police.
Eight policemen were killed before dawn when militants targeted a
checkpoint in the northern province of Baghlan. At about the same
time, Taliban fighters attacked another outpost in Lashkar Gah, the
capital of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, killing another
eight policemen, the Interior Ministry said.
Two militants were killed and another was wounded in the Baghlan
attack, deputy provincial police chief Zalmai Mangal. Baghlan Gov.
Mohammad Akbar Barakzai said the policemen were providing security on
the main road through the province
-- [meanwhile ...]
"Skepticism about curbing corruption"
President Hamid Karzai is to convene a three-day conference on
corruption Tuesday, a gathering that organizers hope will at least
produce public acknowledgment that Afghanistan's government runs on
bribery, graft and favoritism that fuels the Taliban insurgency.
Karzai is under mounting international pressure to clean up his
government. He called the conference as his first official act since
being sworn in last month to a second term after a fraud-marred
election that threatened to undermine international support for the
war in Afghanistan.
The international community has expressed skepticism that this week's
conference will be much more than talk. Instead, international
officials are waiting to see whether reformers are appointed to the
Cabinet and major figures prosecuted before concluding that the
government is serious about curbing corruption.
-- Associated Press
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121403404.html