USA's Afghan Exit Strategy and Pakistan: Another Viewpoint
From the Blog firewithin-jhb America thinks Pakistan should do more. They want to 'win' the war as Trump has said. 'Winning' now could be as little as a 'graceful exit' or as much as 'killing all the Taliban'. We don't know what the American strategy is and how the end state is envisioned. We can at best hypothesize as following: - Option 1 - US wins the peace and exits, - Option 2 - US wins the peace but does not exit, - Option 3 – the US does not win the peace by design. We also don't know what drives US strategy; their obsession in containing China, their opposition to CPEC or their enthusiasm in promoting India as their proxy or even a combination of all three. We further do not know how regional initiatives affect the US presence in Afghanistan; the Russian support for the Taliban, the pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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