Faced with growing NATO doubts about the 11-year war and hoping to increase government power, Afghan President Hamid Karzai today urged NATO to “expedite” the handover of primary control to security operations to the Afghan government.
Karzai’s comments come as several NATO nations, Britain in particular, are pushing to speed their withdrawals from the nations and hoping to end their portions of the occupation, with most scheduled to be out by the end of 2014 and only the US committed through 2024.
At the same time, the Afghan military’s capabilities are in serious doubt, with massive turnover for security forces as well as a growing number of insider attacks from Taliban infiltrators.
Karzai’s efforts may come at least in part because of his efforts to start negotiations with the Taliban, who have repeatedly spurned his offers saying that his government has no real power and isn’t worth negotiating with. If he can secure more control over the nation, it may convince them he is a “player” is the settlement talks.
I like the answer of this German Scholar when he was asked about terrorism and Islam: He said:
·Who started the First World War, which killed 37 million and injured 22, 379, 053 that includes 7 million civilians?Muslims?
·Who started the Second World War, which killed over 60 million, which was over 2.5% of the world population?Muslims?
·Who killed about 20 million of Aborigines in Australia? Muslims?
·Who drop the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed 166,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki? Muslims?
·Who killed more than 100 million Red Indians in North America?Muslims?
·Who killed more than 50 million Indian in South America?Muslims?
·Who took about 180 million African people as slaves and when 88% of them died, threw them into the Atlantic Ocean? Muslims?
NO
They weren’t Muslims! First of all, you have to define terrorism properly…. If a non-Muslim does something bad… it is crime. But if a Muslim commits the same, he is a terrorist. So first remove the double standard… then come to the point.
*** Just for your information ***
No sh*t, Sherlock!