NATO training and equipment, however, are new ;)
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Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View PostAnd Pakistan can do shit all to stop it!Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state to be ruled by priests with a divine mission - Jinnah
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Originally posted by Doktor View PostNATO training and equipment, however, are new ;)
Heck, the US is scrapping its MRAP's because they consider them 'too complicated to be maintained by the ANA'.Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state to be ruled by priests with a divine mission - Jinnah
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Actually US is considering giving away MRAPs and other equipment to "allies", among other things.
Cohesive ANA? How cohesive was NA? Backing wont stop.No such thing as a good tax - Churchill
To make mistakes is human. To blame someone else for your mistake, is strategic.
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Originally posted by Tronic View PostIf the Pakistanis/Taliban can't get through Karzai, who actually belongs to the reconciliatory camp ...Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state to be ruled by priests with a divine mission - Jinnah
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Originally posted by Doktor View PostActually US is considering giving away MRAPs and other equipment to "allies", among other things.
Cohesive ANA? How cohesive was NA? Backing wont stop.
The NA was also beaten back significantly by the Taliban - at best there will be a stalemate in case of another Afghan civil war, with the Taliban holding on to most of the Pashtun provinces and the NA controlling most of the non-Pashtun provinces, hardly the scenario OoE is alluding to with his comments about 'an end to NATO ROE's'.Last edited by Agnostic Muslim; 02 Jul 13,, 13:42.Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state to be ruled by priests with a divine mission - Jinnah
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Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View PostActually, our only concern were that you don't nuke each other.
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Originally posted by Blademaster View PostAnd you keep falling for this stupid trick every time Pakistan starts unilaterally threatening India with nukes when India responds with conventional means. That is no excuse.
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Taliban attack NATO supplier's compound, kill 7 | ksl.com
Taliban attack NATO supplier's compound, kill 7
By Amir Shah, Associated Press
July 2nd, 2013 @ 9:52am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban attackers set off a truck bomb early Tuesday and killed five security guards at a NATO supplier's compound in Kabul, the latest in a series of bold attacks on high profile targets in the Afghan capital.
The attacks have driven home that the Taliban have no intention of ending the violence, even though they have indicated they are willing to talk peace and have opened an office in Qatar for that purpose.
I would have expected some sort of ceasefire during the peace talks, guess that is too much to ask, especially when this asshole says this
"This (attack) has no link to the peace process," Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press in a telephone call. Attacks "will continue all over the country occupied by the foreigners," he said.
If the Taliban are in a bind as you say and if they continue to be dicks like this, why does the USA even bothers? Just let the ANA off the leash"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" ~ Epicurus
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Originally posted by antimony View PostTaliban attack NATO supplier's compound, kill 7 | ksl.com
Well, I really don't know what to say.
I would have expected some sort of ceasefire during the peace talks, guess that is too much to ask, especially when this asshole says this
OOE,
If the Taliban are in a bind as you say and if they continue to be dicks like this, why does the USA even bothers? Just let the ANA off the leash
Ambassador Dobbins: You don’t hold peace talks after the war, you hold peace talks during wars. The Taliban haven’t asked us to stop fighting and we don’t expect them to stop fighting just because they’re talking. The objective of the talks obviously is a diminution of violence and ultimately an enduring peace, but we’re not naďve enough to think that’s going to come quickly and it’s certainly not a precondition for just talking.
Frankly, I anticipate that the Taliban will continue to try to negotiate from a position of strength. They’ll continue to mount attacks as will we and as will the Afghan government. The attacks that the Taliban have mounted over the past several months have been fairly severe and they’ve almost all failed. The Afghan armed forces are now taking the lead in combat operations. We’re no longer leading in combat. They are increasingly reliant on their own resources. And they’re performing well.
But I don’t think that’s going to lead to an immediate diminution in violence. I think the Taliban probably want to continue to put pressure on. They want to continue to make it look like the United States is retreating as a result of that pressure rather than as a result of its success in building a viable Afghan capacity for self-defense. And NATO, the United States, and in particular the Afghan Security Forces are going to continue not just to defend themselves, but to mount offensive operations against the Taliban, and not only seek to hold territory but to reclaim territory.
So I don’t anticipate that the beginning of negotiations will end the war. I do hope that negotiations will ultimately contribute to an end to the war. But that’s by no means certain. It’s simply something that’s worth trying.Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic state to be ruled by priests with a divine mission - Jinnah
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Originally posted by antimony View PostIf the Taliban are in a bind as you say and if they continue to be dicks like this, why does the USA even bothers? Just let the ANA off the leash
The taliban movement cannot be defeated. So the americans want them on the negotiating table so that they can extract a kind of guarantee out of them to prevent global jihadi groups from plotting attacks on the western world, in return for some kind of withdrawal or the US looking the other way as they did before 9/11. The paks want the taliban to dominate in afg because it restricts india from afg.
The ethnic warfare is afg will never end. The north always invades the south.
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Originally posted by Agnostic Muslim View PostPlease see James Dobbins comments in his press conference in India on the subject of continued violence in Afghanistan while the 'talks' take place:
You know as well as I do that in most if not all cases there is an official or unofficial ceasefire or truce while talks progress. There was one between India and Pakistan earlier this year."Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" ~ Epicurus
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Originally posted by Agnostic Muslim View PostAs the Guardian article and some op-eds posted previously indicate, Karzai's motivations and commitment to 'reconciliation' are suspect. If the allegations that he is trying to maneuver his loyalists into taking power in the next elections are correct, then any kind of broad based reconciliation with the Taliban involving their participation in the coming elections would undermine his own position, which in turn would imply that Karzai has little interest in any sort of 'peace deal' with the Taliban before the next Afghan elections.
Either way, Karzai won't last long, and the men likely to be replacing him have a bloodlust for the Taliban.Cow is the only animal that not only inhales oxygen, but also exhales it.
-Rekha Arya, Former Minister of Animal Husbandry
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Originally posted by Double Edge View PostIf they're getting desperate then why has it taken this long ? Who has been running after who ?
Bear in mind the Taliban do not want to talk to Karzai until ISAF leave.
Who is the more desperate of the two here btw ?Cow is the only animal that not only inhales oxygen, but also exhales it.
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Stupidity knows no bounds. They could have left this equipment for the ANA.
'Pakistan to get first call on US military leftovers in Afghanistan'
Washington believes it is obligated to Islamabad for bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table at Qatar, for discussions aimed at reducing violence in Afghanistan, which would smoothen the American troop drawdown this year and the next.
An earlier report in The Washington Post had estimated that the US military would leave behind some $7 billion worth of defence equipment, one-fifth of what is deployed in Afghanistan. US military officials tell Business Standard that aircraft, heavy weapons, vehicles and equipment are likely to be repatriated to the US. Much of what Pakistan will benefit from will be ammunition, vehicles, construction material, air-conditioners, etc.
Much more could be left behind if the situation deteriorates; Taliban resistance would determine what could feasibly be transported. Sceptics in New Delhi point out that Pakistan controls the spigot of violence.
And what's this business about NATO ROE's somehow reigning in the ANA and "letting the ANA off the leash after the US leaves"? What is the ANA going to do that NATO couldn't or wouldn't? Burn villages? Kill civilians? Take the fight into Pakistan? More likely that they are going to be overwhelmed by the Taliban after the US troops leave. These peace talks are simply a tactic to quicken the US exit. The NA couldn't defeat the taliban till they got US airpower (and eventually, troops). Before that they were on the defensive and their most important commander was assassinated by suicide bombers. There were no ROE's reigning them in back then. The ANA is unlikely to be any more effective.
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