Postby Twisted_Logic » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:52 pm
[quote="radical"]^^Afghanistan problem will be solved just like the Soviets did;)[/quote]
I have my doubts. On the surface Afghanistan looks like a great example of global effort against terrorism, but once you scratch the surface a little harder, what you will see is a very disturbing case of international spy operations targeting some specific countries. People think that the Americans are after the Taliban and their Al qaida allies, the truth is that America is using some shadowy characters and militants to target their allies like China and Pakistan. The Indians too are active in Afghanistan with the support of the Karzai government. Soon after 9/11 and the ensuing fall of the Taliban regime, India was quick to open its embassies and consulates all over Afghanistan specifically those close to the Pakistani border regime especially Kandhar and Jalalabad, which they continue to use as a hub to supply, arm and train anti-State elements in Pakistan. The Pakistanis too have complained about Indian activities on its Western border, it is interesting to note that a bomb blast that targeted a Pakistani intelligence office in Southern Pakistan was traced to Bagram Air Base and when the chief of Pakistani intelligence service confronted Gen Tommy Frank, the Americans were simply caught with their pants down. The Americans were found to be arming the Balochistan Peoples' Liberation Army which wants a separate homeland for the Baloch people in Iran,and Pakistan. Interesting, the Baloch people in Afghanistan too but the BLA doesn't want any of Afghanistan! In 2006 the BLA was destroyed ( about 80%) and had their leader and top leadership killed.
The recent assassination of Benazir Bhutto was traced to a guy who goes by the name of Abdullah Mehsud. Incidentally, Mehsud was arrested in Afghanistan and spent years in GITMO under American control and after he was realized, instead of joining the Taliban, he formed his own militia ( with God knows where he got the money and support) and started targeting the Chinese people in Pakistan working in strategic partnership in Pakistan such as the constructions of the Dams, Roads and above all the Gwadar port in Southern Pakistan that is designed to give the Chinese Navy a foothold in the Persian Gulf. The Americans have always made it clear that they will not tolerate Chinese presence in the Persian Gulf and the fact that America plans to stabilize Afghanistan and help the BLA annex Southern Pakistan and turn it into a hub whereby the Huge Oil and Natural Gas of Central Asia can be transported into the Arabian Sea doesn't sit well with the Chinese and certainly with the Pakistanis. There alot of reports of Chinese and Russian assistance to the Taliban lately and that should not surprise any-one. Russia is starting to regain its lost glory and sees the Central Asian republics as its own backyard, the Chinese too want to secure their routes of their energy flow such as the Malaca straits, the Persian Gulf through Gawadar ( where they have spent 10s of billions of USD in the last 5 years) and even the Horn of Africa region.
That's why I said that whatever happens in Afghanistan will determine the fate of the Chinese empire.
my 2 cents worth
