The big three who can help save Afghanistan ... As its forces withdraw, Nato should not be afraid to seek help from Russia, India and Iran, says Shashank Joshi ... Exactly 11 years ago, with the wounds of 9/11 still fresh, the United States and Britain invaded Afghanistan. They arrived in anger, collected allies along the way, and grew in ambition. Today that anger has faded, those allies depleted, and their ambition exhausted ... There is no easy solution, but Nato should not be afraid to ask for help. – UK Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: We need help and should ask our friends. We only want peace for Afghanistan.
Free-Market News: According to this UK Telegraph columnist, India, Iran and Russia should be approached about supporting Kabul in its attempts to maintain a centralized government in Afghanistan.
This is nothing more than a recipe for a civil war, however, and is line with other
NATO and US efforts to maintain "stability" in the region. What is never mentioned about current efforts and what the
mainstream media never probes is the actual composition of the army being set up in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is made up of
Pashtuns and other minorities that have been traditionally confrontational. It is the Pashtuns versus all the rest.
Once NATO goes, the Afghan army left behind will be charged with controlling all of Afghanistan. But as it is an army that is made up of tribes that are traditionally adversarial to the Pashtuns, this army has no chance to patrol peacefully throughout the country.
This article mentions nothing about this fundamental problem, though it does give us a larger summary of the war and its apparent winding down. Here's some more ...
