Read an online posting by Jeff Smith on the failure in Afghanistan. Smith is the Director of the South Asia Program at the American Foreign Policy Council and author of numerous articles on Asian security affairs.
Smith believes that Afghanistan is intent to return to a state of chaos and ethnic conflict. He puts much of the blame on Pakistan for allowing the Taliban sanctuaries and providing aid and assistance to the Taliban. He then says the U.S. leadership should have recognized that the war could not be properly prosecuted unless Pakistan cooperated; and without that cooperation we should have withdrawn our troops from Afghanistan.
Read the post in "Afghanistan Seems Fixed on a Return to Chaos", U.S. News and World Report, March 16, 2012.
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