NATO Tries Silver Bullet

by Ahmar Mustikhan | January 9, 2009 at 12:50 am

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Afghanistan will remain one of the major challenges for the world and top priority for the new US administration of President-elect Barack Obama.

Afghan people have suffered for more than 30 years now, but their plight may not end soon. A major mistake NATO made was to send the junior most, untrained soldiers to make them battle ready resulting in very high number of deaths in friendly fire.

The war in Afghanistan is spreading its tentacles around the world. The terrorist attacks in Mumbai are now attributed to elements trying to divert the Pakistani military away from the Afghan border areas. Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban: The Story of the Afghan Warlords, pointed out that these groups attacked the Indian parliament in December 2001, forcing the army to move "from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas on the Afghan border towards the Indian border. Nobody could touch the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Afghans and others for the next four years." Recent explosives found in a Paris department store were part of a planned attack by the Afghan Revolutionary Front to protest against the presence French troops there.