Hamid Karzai Seems To Be Getting Fed Up With The Taliban
I have had reservations about Afghan President Hamid Karzai because of the way that he has been dealing with the Taliban
. I thought that he seemed to be very nave in his dealings and Im not sure that he isnt nave now but the fact that he seems to be getting frustrated by the dealings of the Taliban offers hope.
He recently told the Pakistanis that if they were to enter into a conflict with the United States he would take their side. This was an unwise statement to say the least but it seems to show his duplicity when it comes to dealing with the United States. Personally I think that the United States should publicly call him to the carpet on this.
He has pushed hard for reconciliation with the Taliban but he seems now to be showing signs of changing his mind. He has done more than bend over backwards to make amens with them time after time but they have shown no signs of being serious. He is saying now that attempts to negotiate with the insurgent movement are futile and efforts at dialogue should focus instead on neighboring Pakistan.
Now this is well and good but I personally dont see where talking to the Pakistanis will do him much good either. Pakistan has proven their treachery to him and his cause time and time again. The fact that they harbor so many of al-Qaedas top leadership should be enough to open the eyes of anyone. Its not an accident or a mistake that the US has killed so many of the Talibans top leaders inside of Pakistans borders. The fact that there are so many of them who are comfortable there is strong enough evidence to make me know that they are getting help from the highest levels in the Pakistani government.
Karzai explained in a videotaped speech released by his office Saturday that he changed his views about trying to talk to the Taliban after a suicide bomber, claiming to be a peace emissary sent by the insurgents, killed former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani at his home on Sept. 20. Rabbani was leading Karzai's effort to broker peace with the Taliban. Personally I believed that it would have been prudent to change his mind long before then.
"Their messengers are coming and killing. So with whom should we make peace?" Karzai said Friday to a gathering of the nation's top religious leaders that was videotaped.
"I cannot find Mullah Mohammad Omar," Karzai said, referring to the Taliban's one eyed leader. "Where is he? I cannot find the Taliban council. Where is it? "I don't have any other answer except to say that the other side for this negotiation is Pakistan," Karzai said.
Most of the Taliban leadership is thought to be living in Pakistan, and its governing council known as the Quetta Shurais based in the southern Pakistani city of the same name. It has long been believed that the Pakistani government has sheltered and influenced the group.
Afghanistan said Saturday it had evidence that Rabbani's assassination was planned by Taliban figures living in Quetta. Afghan Interior Minister Besmillah Mohammadi went even further, telling Afghan lawmakers Saturday that Pakistan's intelligence service, known as the ISI, was involved in Rabbani's killing an allegation that Pakistan has denied. "Without any doubt, ISI, is involved in this," Mohammadi said. Now when you look at this statement doesnt it make you wonder why Karzai feels that he should negotiate with the Pakistanis. Is it that he is that nave?
Last week, U.S. officials leveled accusations of their own, saying Pakistan's spy agency assisted the Haqqani network in attacks on Western targets in Afghanistan. It was the most serious allegation yet of Pakistani duplicity in the war. Now whenever the US makes a public allegation it has evidence to back it up.
The group has been blamed for hundreds of attacks, including a 20-hour siege of the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters last month. The United States and other members of the international community have in the past accused Pakistan of allowing the Taliban to maintain safe havens in the country's tribal areas along the Afghan border. They have certainly been comfortable with making incursions across the border whenever they want.
An Afghan government statement issued earlier in the past week said Pakistan had failed to take steps to eliminate terrorist sanctuaries. It added that if Pakistan's intelligence service is using the Taliban against Afghanistan, then the Afghan government needs to have negotiations with Pakistan, "not the Taliban."
The Haqqani network and its safe havens remain a top priority for Afghan and coalition forces.
The NATO statement said security forces have conducted more than 500 operations so far in 2011 in an effort to disrupt the Haqqani network leadership, resulting in the deaths of 20 operatives and the capture of nearly 300 insurgent leaders and 1,300 suspected Haqqani insurgents.
The shaky cooperation that has existed between the US and the Pakistanis has been nothing more than a marriage of convenience to say the least. I dont think that the cooperation will cease as long as the Pakistanis are getting financial aid from the United States.
Military Ring Expressby: tishbite
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