revelarts
08-29-2010, 09:51 PM
Apparently,
And not only that, our Ally Pakistan knows and works with many of the Taliban leadership and could point them out to us any time, if they wanted to.
And the Taliban and Alquida really don't get along would have gotten rid of them or turned them over to us if we would have made a deal with them ...in 2000 and after?
from a 20 minute interview with
Independent journalist Anand Gopal discusses the Taliban’s lucrative protection racket on U.S. supply convoys, Pakistan’s refusal to allow a bilateral peace deal between Hamid Karzai and the Taliban, Colin Powell’s disinterest in regime change in Afghanistan (in September 2001), the Afghan army’s inability to secure the country or fight the Taliban, how the Marjah screw-up has made the military cautious on the Kandahar offensive and why Gen. Petraeus’s “success” in Iraq was easy: allow majority (Shia) to rule and bribe minority (Sunni) to stop fighting – while in Afghanistan the opposite is proposed.
Anand Gopal has reported in Afghanistan for the Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal. His dispatches can be read at AnandGopal.com. He is currently working on a book about the Afghan war.
MP3 here. (19:30)
http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/08/26/anand-gopal-3/
And not only that, our Ally Pakistan knows and works with many of the Taliban leadership and could point them out to us any time, if they wanted to.
And the Taliban and Alquida really don't get along would have gotten rid of them or turned them over to us if we would have made a deal with them ...in 2000 and after?
from a 20 minute interview with
Independent journalist Anand Gopal discusses the Taliban’s lucrative protection racket on U.S. supply convoys, Pakistan’s refusal to allow a bilateral peace deal between Hamid Karzai and the Taliban, Colin Powell’s disinterest in regime change in Afghanistan (in September 2001), the Afghan army’s inability to secure the country or fight the Taliban, how the Marjah screw-up has made the military cautious on the Kandahar offensive and why Gen. Petraeus’s “success” in Iraq was easy: allow majority (Shia) to rule and bribe minority (Sunni) to stop fighting – while in Afghanistan the opposite is proposed.
Anand Gopal has reported in Afghanistan for the Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal. His dispatches can be read at AnandGopal.com. He is currently working on a book about the Afghan war.
MP3 here. (19:30)
http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/08/26/anand-gopal-3/