Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Our faithful allies
It seems that our staunch ally Karzai of the Afghans was seeking some new friends the other day, among the Pakistani Taliban.
A bungled attempt by the Afghan government to cultivate a shadowy alliance with Islamist militants escalated into the latest flash point in the troubled relationship between Afghanistan and the United States, according to new accounts by officials from both countries.It is bad enough that we have paid out stonking big amounts of money to support these shits, but it boggles the mind to think we still want to stay there. I would ask what were we thinking, if there was any indication of thought to begin with.
The disrupted plan involved Afghan intelligence trying to work with the Pakistan Taliban, allies of Al Qaeda, in order to find a trump card in a baroque regional power game that is likely to intensify after the American withdrawal next year, the officials said. And what started the hard feelings was that the Americans caught them red-handed.
Tipped off to the plan, United States Special Forces raided an Afghan convoy that was ushering a senior Pakistan Taliban militant, Latif Mehsud, to Kabul for secret talks last month, and now have Mr. Mehsud in custody.
Publicly, the Afghan government has described Mr. Mehsud as an insurgent peace emissary. But according to Afghan officials, the ultimate plan was to take revenge on the Pakistani military.
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Karzai has to make peace with the Taliban because once the U.S. soldiers leave, they're the most powerful army in the country. Forget about the so-called "Afghan Army", it will fall apart the moment there's not U.S. troops to shoot them in the back if they run rather than fight, much the same way that the ARVN fell apart during the last North Vietnamese push to Saigon. That's the problem with mercenaries (and they *are* mercenaries, by and large), they're there for the money, not to put their lives in danger.
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