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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

'Whither Afghanistan after 2014?'

the view from russia........from the voice of russia.....

"While the deadline for American and other foreign troop’s withdrawal from Afghanistan is slowly but inevitably approaching, too many questions are arising concerning the future of Afghanistan after 2014.

Tuesday’s terrorist attack on Kabul’s heavily guarded landmark Intercontinental Hotel was an obvious demonstration of force by the Taliban. The Taliban wanted to show, first, that despite the massive foreign military presence, Hamid Karzai’s government is unable to control even the capital of the country, and second, that any future configuration of power in Afghanistan is doomed if the Taliban is excluded from it.

Therefore, despite the outrage in the West following the bloody terrorist attack, the talks with the Taliban that are already going on are sure to continue.

What is not so clear is the fate of the present Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The longer any solution is not reached, the vaguer his fate seems to become. Just recently, he had to face a kind of a rebellion within his own parliament which had been carefully selected and elected under strict control"..........................READ MORE

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