Afghanistan Strategic Choices for USA and Regional Actors

Pak ready to amend anti-terror laws: Gilani
25 Jan 2009, 0054 hrs IST, TNN
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NEW DELHI: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan is ready to amend its anti-terror laws to facilitate the prosecution
of accused in terror related acts which take place outside the country.

Gilani made the statement in an interview to `Financial Times' in response to a question about Pakistan's response to the Mumbai killings.

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the humiliation of a nation continues.

and who ia marking red flags, this red-flagger should be flogged or banned...

what was it? a movie plot?

amazing, instead of thinking how to correct things, people are dreaming wild about how they can get some support to spread their killings... And so clueless to dream that China will help Islamists to confront USA...

such wild dreams do not reflect healthy state of mind...

Agha:

1. You have not addressed the most fundamental question, "but why the U.S. would remain engaged in that region?".

2. Regarding nuclear, there are ways to take care, one of them is let Pakistan drop it on someone, sometime and somewhere, if India is smart it will not let it happen in India; or get Israelis take care of it. Latter is now possible through Bagram base.

3. Russia and China getting involved in your fashion is Islamists dream not strategy.

4. The U.S. has limited strategic interest in that region, other than taking care of terrorism. If it cannot get Pakistan to solve it, the U.S. will use it. The U.S. gains nothing from long term presence. It, like the British earlier, will create "Chaotic Buffer" and leave it to warring factions to take care of each other and thus maintain the Chaotic Buffer.

5. Soon it might need Taliban breakaways more than Pakistan army for this purpose. This breakaway will happen in Obama administration. You, like I will witness it.

6. It will maintain carrot ($$$, and Viagra) available for the breakway also, and stick (drones) for others.

7. Can talibs remain united under all circumstances? This is a question. History of the region does not suggest such long lasting unity.

"It is naive to think that the USA came to Afghanistan to deal with the Talibs."

Fine! But without explaining why the US is in Afghanistan, the whole options mentioned for all countries are meaningless.

What is so important in Afghanistan that the US would keep its occupation at all costs thus triggering a major upheaval in the area that no power in the world would be able to manage.

Why would the US escalate the problems in the area considering the widening financial crisis in the US which would eventually impact US spendings outside the US. Defense or otherwise.

Another nonsense of an article.

Both China and Russia know the dangers of allowing the islamists to be successful in Afghanistan, i.e. the islamists would then move to causing trouble in provinces of China and Russia which have significant muslim population. The islamists have a global agenda so they wouldn't stop with Afghanistan. I hope Iran learns the lesson too, that the Sunni extremists would then gun for Iranian blood.