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2009-08-24

Rethink the Afghanistan strategy of the NATO forces

Comments on Amin Saikal “Afghanistan: a British nightmare?” 23/08/2009, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/08/23/afghanistan-a-british-nightmare/

The military and political reality in Afghanistan after a few years war led by the US with participation of NATO countries appears to suggest that the US led NATO forces strategies are ineffective and poorly targeted.

It is not right to turn almost the whole of a significant ethnic group into an enemy. The purest approach that the Taliban is all evil and should be destroyed needs to be evaluated carefully whether itself may be ethnic “cleansing” and reflects intolerance of another religion or a branch of a religion.

The objective of that war should be the overthrown of the Taliban from power and that has been achieved. While it is important to limit the hardline elements of the Taliban to export terrorism, the justice for destroy the Taliban completely is questionable at the least. It either has become or is in danger of becoming some sort of ideology.

If the Taliban, whether it is in Afghanistan or Pakistan, can stop its exports of terrorism and terrorists to other regions and do not engage in terrorism in their own regions, the war against them perhaps should be called off. If they do engage in terrorism or export it, then the international community can pursue a strategy to stop them from doing it.

It has been reported that the Afghanistan president has called for dialogue with the Taliban. If Afghanistan is willing to do that, why would the international community, supposed to help them, is not willing to do it? Does it indicate that the strategy by the NATO forces is contrary to what it says to help the Afghanistan?

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