Afghan president urges military action in Pakistan

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that airstrikes carried out in Afghan villages by U.S. and NATO troops are only killing civilians and that the international community should instead go after terror centers in Pakistan.

International forces serving under NATO and the separate U.S.-led coalition insist that the vast majority of those killed in air raids are militants. However, they also acknowledge that civilians are sometimes killed in bombing runs, though they accuse militants of firing on international troops from civilian homes they have commandeered.

Speaking under a tree on the grounds of the presidential palace, Karzai said the international community should take its fight across the border into Pakistan, where militants find safe havens in Pakistan's tribal region.

"The struggle against terrorism is not in the villages of Afghanistan," Karzai said. "The only result of the use of airstrikes is the killing of civilians. This is not the way to wage the fight against terrorism."



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1. Pakistan is now the center of terrorism in the world..

Need I say anything more...

[Arctic Dave]

2. Those are some big words coming from that puppet.

Who do yout thinjk told him to say them?

[CHIMO]

3. He Doesn't Want

To try.

A regional blueprint for saving the Afghan mission


The impact on the NATO mission in Afghanistan, including Canada's, is clear. Dire warnings are being issued from Washington and elsewhere. But the suggested solution – more troops and more war – is a prescription for long-term disaster.

Afghanistan needs a political solution – in fact, a series of political compromises: internally, along the same lines as the deals in Iraq with Sunni insurgent groups; with Pakistan; and a regional understanding with India and Pakistan.

The three nations are linked by history and contemporary geopolitics. Afghanistan was the buffer state between Czarist Russia and British India. It was the theatre of the last battle of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. Now it is the locale of several proxy wars for the competing interests of the U.S., Pakistan, India and Iran.

Pakistan does not want a government in Kabul that is hostile to it, as Hamid Karzai has foolishly been. Or one that is overtly pro-Indian, as he also has been. Pakistan does not want to be squeezed from both the south and the north.

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