“If Afghanistan’s violence does indeed intensify, the spark would be a combination of factors: Overmatched Afghan security forces; Taliban havens in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal agency that the Pakistani military refuses to eliminate; and a weak, corrupt Afghan government that fails to present itself as a better alternative to the Taliban. These are factors a modest residual force would be powerless to do much about,” writes Michael Kugelman on GPS. “The other intended aim of a residual force – training Afghan troops – is also problematic. And that’s because this purpose is already being ably served by India. In 2011, New Delhi and Kabul inked a strategic agreement that authorized India’s military to increase training of Afghan security forces that had begun in 2007. Tellingly, at the very moment Washington was acknowledging the seriousness with which it’s considering the zero option, a delegation of Indian civilian and military officials was in Kabul to discuss training programs.” globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn/2013/07/10/zero-option-the-right-one-in-afghanistan/
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:05:26 +0000
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