Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai spent most of his time in office at odds with the US on specifics of war strategy. He’s out of office now, but he’s increasingly vocal about his opposition to President Trump’s new escalation.
Karzai was very critical in particular of President Trump’s policy centering on criticizing Pakistan while encouraging India to be more heavily involved in Afghanistan, saying a plan to sew regional disharmony isn’t a realistic way to win the Afghan conflict.
“If they genuinely want to fight extremism and terrorism, they cannot do it by creating rivalry here in this region,” Karzai warned, cautioning that they’re just adding to the number of different conflicts Afghans are going to be stuck with.
Karzai also made attempts during his time in office to try to court more support from India, and also had problems at times with Pakistan, but was never so overt in linking the issues, and appears to believe Trump’s strategy is making Afghanistan a more direct part of the region’s biggest conflict.
Votel…..gen. Votes i.e. Where have I heard this name B4……?????
May be he needs to ask himself different questions. Like the reason Afghan tribes keep on fighting each other, falling for every divisive gsme third graders should be sble to figure out. But, alas. They know exactly what they are doing, as there is always a delicious incentive to fight whiever and whatever the reason. Money, arms, blind eye to selling billions in heroin. So, the tribes are like seals, performing any trick, awaiting eagerly for a fish to be dropped. And if that ceases to work, there are always imported true faith fighters, as the region is awash with unemployed, uneducated young men, willing to fight for the monthly pittance.
Until new generations of Afghans rise to the occassion, they will remain seals waiting for an always smaller fish to be dropped.
Who’s dropping the fish, so to speak ? The answer is in the US military and its alphabet agencies (“Alphabet” also means Google now, most appropriately) – as directed by the World Bank/IMF/Federal Reserve. Take a look at President Ghani’s biography. Oy vey.