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"Puppet Afghanistan President Engages In Saber Rattling"

posted Sun, 06-15-08
Afghan President Hamid Karzai interacts with the media members ...
Reuters
Sun Jun 15, 6:21 AM ET

Afghan President Hamid Karzai interacts with the media members after a news conference in Kabul June 15, 2008.

(Ahmad Masood/Reuters)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday threatened to send troops into Pakistan to kill Taliban militants if they pursued cross-border attacks into Afghanistan.

Pakistan said any action against militants on its soil would be undertaken only by its own forces.

Self-proclaimed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and other Taliban officials in recent weeks have vowed to send fighters into Afghanistan to battle Afghan and foreign forces.

"This means that Afghanistan has the right of self defense," Karzai said, when asked to comment on the threats.

"When they cross the territory from Pakistan to come and kill Afghans and kill coalition troops, it exactly gives us the right to go back and do the same. Therefore, Baitullah Mehsud should know that we will go after him now and hit him in his house."

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Pakistan had a clear position that U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan forces could take whatever action they wanted against militants in Afghanistan but on the Pakistani side of the border only Islamabad's own forces were allowed to operate.

"The spokesman emphasized that any statement that negated this basic principle neither helped in the war on terrorism nor promoted stability in the region," the official Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

Pakistan, wary of a backlash from Pashtun tribes living on its long border with Afghanistan, has ruled out allowing foreign troops to operate on its territory, though U.S. forces have carried out several airstrikes inside Pakistan targeting al Qaeda militants and their allies.

Eleven Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed in an air raid by U.S.-led coalition forces against the militants on the border this week.

The Afghan government says the Taliban and al Qaeda members who fled into Pakistan after the fall of the Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001 have support and training bases there.

Pakistan concedes some cross border infiltration of militants but wants Afghan government and foreign forces to tighten border controls on their side.

Pakistan, reeling from a wave of suicide attacks since mid-2007, has opened peace talks with militants, including Mehsud. Afghan and NATO officials say cross-border attacks have risen since then.

Pakistan supported the largely ethnic Pashtun Taliban militia when it seized control of Afghanistan in the mid-1990s and officially dropped its support after the September 11 attacks on the United States.

Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun who is facing an election next year, said Mehsud and other Pakistani Taliban were tools of Pakistan's intelligence services.

"(They) have been trained against the Pashtuns of Pakistan and against the people of Afghanistan and their jobs are to burn Pashtun schools in Pakistan, not to allow their girls to get educated and kill the Pashtun tribal chiefs," he said.

"This is the duty of Afghanistan to save the Pashtuns in Pakistan from this tyranny and terror ... this is the duty of Afghanistan to defend itself and defend their brothers, sisters and sons on the other side."

There is a long-running dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan over Pashtun territory straddling both sides of the border. Afghanistan has never recognized the 2,640 km (1,610) frontier, known as the Durand line after the British colonialist who drew it. Afghans say the border robbed Afghanistan of land and unfairly divides Pashtuns.

     Hamid Karzai, the Bush Administration's puppet President of Afghanistan, is threatening to invade Pakistan, ostensibly to destroy Taliban bases in Pakistan. Like President Bush, Karzai has come up with some "trumped up" justification for his invasion of Pakistan.

    Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun who is facing an election next year, said Mehsud and other Pakistani Taliban were tools of Pakistan's intelligence services."(They) have been trained against the Pashtuns of Pakistan and against the people of Afghanistan and their jobs are to burn Pashtun schools in Pakistan, not to allow their girls to get educated and kill the Pashtun tribal chiefs," he said. "This is the duty of Afghanistan to save the Pashtuns in Pakistan from this tyranny and terror ... this is the duty of Afghanistan to defend itself and defend their brothers, sisters and sons on the other side."

      In my opinion, it is not in the best interests of either Afghanistan nor Pakistan, for President Karzai to send Afghan forces into Pakistan if such a military operation does not have Pakistan's approval. Pakistan is not being unreasonable in forbidding foreign military forces within it's borders. No country in the world would willingly allow such a violation of that nation's sovereignty. Pakistan has a vastly superior army capable of dealing with the Pakistan Taliban but at present the Pakistani government is negotiating peace with the Pakistan Taliban. Pakistan's suggestion that Afghanistan tighten their own border security is a very pragmatic solution to raids by the Taliban from Pakistan. The Pashtun people are a very close knit ethnic group and in my opinion, the Afghan Pashtuns will not fight against the Pakistan Pashtuns because that is the very problem that Pakistan has, namely the Pashtuns in the Pakistani army will not fight against the Pakistan Taliban.

    Is it coincidental that President Karzai's "saber rattling" has coincided with the "saber rattling" of Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain? Though Obama is committed to withdrawing from Iraq, he is also committed to expand the war efforts in Afghanistan and to Pakistan and that is just fine with the neoconservatives currently in control of America's foreign policies. Neocons want perpetual war and instability in the Middle East because such is very profitable. That is why neocons hate Republican Congressman Dr. Ron Paul and the Libertarian party for their principle of non-interference in the affairs of other nations along with withdrawing America's armed forces from all foreign soil. The "war profiteers" can't make their trillions of dollars from perpetual war and instability under a Libertarian government. That's a good thing, in my opinion.

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