tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post5517512415617684306..comments2024-03-28T05:22:10.255-07:00Comments on Broadsword by Ajai Shukla - Strategy. Economics. Defence.: India announces foreign policy change: supports Afghan reconciliation with TalibanBroadswordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076780076240598482noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-59247689864531812832009-10-11T21:58:44.758-07:002009-10-11T21:58:44.758-07:00I believe that the greatest failure that we had in...I believe that the greatest failure that we had in Afghanistan happened before 9/11 ,infact 3 days before 9/11, when we was not able to protect our greatest asset in Afghanistan Ahmad Shah Massoud from the Taliban.<br /> It was an unfortunate incident and we along with the world are paying for it.<br /> Just imagine a man of his stature in place of Karzai and all our Northern Alliance buddies strictly adhering to his orders....<br /> We would have secured for ourselves a peaceful and friendly Afghanistan...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-70148207614169879092009-10-11T09:47:37.013-07:002009-10-11T09:47:37.013-07:00how do they even still have weapons,just the fact ...how do they even still have weapons,just the fact that they are still up and fighting shows that they get support from pakistan,and if we change our stand on something like this,we might have to do the same on more serios issues like kashmir!waah congress teri maaya aprampaar!riturajnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-31872644630065686272009-10-08T10:06:53.970-07:002009-10-08T10:06:53.970-07:00seems Taliban has responded to our good will gestu...seems Taliban has responded to our good will gesture by bombing our Kabul embassy once again. Why do we keep fooling ourselves. Appeasing the devil has never benefited anyone yet humanity keeps repeating the same mistakes time and again. Its important to do the right thing howsoever difficult that may be. Reforming Afghanistan may take a generation or more but surrendering to the wolves is no solution either. The important thing to understand is that the faith of humanity is intertwined. As long as there are people in the world who are oppressed, hungry or just misguided their pain is going to get you sooner or later. You just cant close doors on them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-12834247649307863082009-10-08T00:58:16.592-07:002009-10-08T00:58:16.592-07:00It is very clear that the Taliban cannot be exterm...It is very clear that the Taliban cannot be exterminated in toto. The kind of overwhelming deployment of manpower and firepower which would be required to effect such an outcome is not likely to happen. Pakistan does not have the will to prevent use of its territory by Taliban and the US cannot go beyond a point to force Pakistan to see things its way.<br /><br />So you cant defeate them militarily, they just run away licking their wounds, regroup and come back. You cant kill them off. Only option left is some kind of negotiated settlement, maybe power sharing arrangement. If India does not come on board now, it never will and the post US arrangement will show us the door for sure.P Mukherjeenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-67760991544547983242009-10-07T23:51:03.912-07:002009-10-07T23:51:03.912-07:00Bro i will give you a smile to your above statemen...Bro i will give you a smile to your above statement.Hope you didn't read the article by Ajai,its all about strategy.We don't want to loose Afghanistan to pak as he pointed out in his second last writing .<br /><br />And about naxals we all know Left supported them in the past.Now the whole situation changed ,within 5 years they will be wiped out .Arun rajkumar.lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09847013483086178566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-15697543856469755962009-10-07T22:58:32.214-07:002009-10-07T22:58:32.214-07:00Colonel Shukla,
In case this is some chankian move...Colonel Shukla,<br />In case this is some chankian move to slowly move away from Karzai then what is the rationale behind it?<br />1. Does GOI sees Karzai as been discredited in these elections and we don't want to antagonise Dr Abdullah?<br /><br />2. Is GOI getting ready for the eventuallity of Amirkhans leaving Afghanistan in a short time and we don't have someone like Massoud to hedge our bets on this time around?<br /><br />3. Is Terrorist state of pakistan on the verge of convincing the Americans that Only Taliban can provide security and also a guarantee that Terrorism , Henceforth will not be directed against West & Europe from Afghanistan and US has to turn a blind eye towards the happening in India?<br /><br />4. Or is it late understanding of history that most of the beards(opportunist Talibs) are rentiers and they will pick up a gun to fight on the side of whoever pays more money or seems to be powerful and they have nothing to do with ideology ?<br /><br />5. Are we forgetting that Karzai is a Durrani and they have ruled Afghanistan for the past 250 odd years and most of the talibans are Ghilzais including that One eyed mullah?<br /><br />6. Last but not the least why are we helping the Amirkhans craft an exist strategy? It helps us if they are sucked up in this quagmire for long. It has to weaken them and their poodle to the extant that they should leave this area for good.Only we have been able to beat these pashtoons(Maharaja Ranjit singh). His General (an American named gerald) used to throw 5 Pathans from the peshawar fort upside down every morning. Everyone of Sikh generals had a Durrani wife.<br /><br />Are we ready to play the game on our own? Who will be our proxy this time? One eyed Mullah is no friend of ours and how do we deny space to Terrorist state of pakistan? I do understand that we must protect our investments as Americas are about to run away but we must find ways and means to keep them here anyhow.<br /><br />Are we ready to land troopers in Afghanistan to provide security? In that case where do we supply them from? Now I am convinced that we must land troopers and I think this rumours of American retreat are to nudge India to send troopers. We must insist on a Land corridor to supplyBrahamvakyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05864729826013229860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-60700173872216859722009-10-07T22:56:28.656-07:002009-10-07T22:56:28.656-07:00This is good but it is not a new policy, in India ...This is good but it is not a new policy, in India we always pursue "lay down arms and join the main stream" policy for our internal problems in noth east, maoist..., and it has to be backed by economical development in Afghanistan, may be we should also initiate a forum for investment(creation of jobs) in Afghanistan to end support for terrorism, the analogy here is like the Indian health ministry saying watch more tv to more less reproduce.krishnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14823833399821031946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-36377301261488233792009-10-07T22:55:42.520-07:002009-10-07T22:55:42.520-07:00This is good but it is not a new policy, in India ...This is good but it is not a new policy, in India we always pursue "lay down arms and join the main stream" policy for our internal problems in noth east, maoist..., and it has to be backed by economical development in Afghanistan, may be we should also initiate a forum for investment(creation of jobs) in Afghanistan to end support for terrorism, the analogy here is like the Indian health ministry saying watch more tv to more less reproduce.krishnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14823833399821031946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-39529552020548995612009-10-07T22:30:17.544-07:002009-10-07T22:30:17.544-07:00In that case y doesnt india negotiate with the nax...In that case y doesnt india negotiate with the naxalites in its own territory this only shows that the indian leadership behave like chickens when confronting a stronger adversaryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com