Friday, November 27, 2009

To surge or not to Surge- in Afghanistan:-4

The fifth thing is to curtail the flow of arms and Taliban Fighters from across the border.

The free flow of human and arms trafficking from across the border can be reduced but it can never be eliminated because of the long porous border with Pakistan and also to convince Pakistan to tighten their side of the border. We have to capacity and the manpower (after the surge) to monitor these things through satellites and drone technology.

The sixth thing is that the U.S. government should make sure that that territory is never used again as a safe haven for terrorist organizations nor launching an attack on the United States. We need to all the stakeholders to make sure we make our point across on this point. There should not be any compromise on this solution even if we have to take steps which may be unpopular in some stakeholder’s interests.

We have to stabilize the country of Pakistan in all matters since that is where this majority of arms and People are coming, no matter what and how much they protest on the contrary. It is no hidden fact that Pakistan has a big stake in the Afghanistan scenario and we should take that into account but it should not be at the expense of American interests.

No comments:

Post a Comment