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=== News Update ===
US will be defeated in Afghanistan: former CIA hand
Indo-Asian News Service
Washington/Islamabad, December 31, 2006
A former senior CIA operative who tracked Osama bin Laden for 10 long years
foresees "an apparent American defeat in Afghanistan".
Michael Sheuer said the way ahead in Afghanistan and along the
Afghanistan-Pakistan border "ultimately would lead to the defeat of US and
NATO forces and the demise of the Karzai government".
Scheuer told the Daily Times in Washington that by failing to accomplish
the only mission that had to be accomplished in Afghanistan, the US was now
faced with a growing insurgency that probably already outnumbered the
combined US-NATO forces.
But he has handsome words of praise for Pakistan President Pervez
Musharraf. The US has seldom found an ally better than Musharraf, who has
acted to advance "US interests" even while jeopardizing his own, Sheuer
observed.
Some of Musharraf's actions, like sending Pakistani troops to tribal areas,
were clearly "against Pakistan's interests" and have "brought his country
to the brink of a civil war", he said.
By not abandoning the Cold War practice of trying to find foreigners to do
"America's dirty work, we have blithely assumed that Musharraf's Pakistan
is an American proxy, with national-security interests that mirror those of
the US", he said.
"The truth is that virtually none of the many things Musharraf has done to
assist the US in Afghanistan has been in Pakistan's national interest;
indeed, by sending the Pakistani Army into the Pashtun regions he brought
his country to the brink of civil war."
His praise for Musharraf was in sharp contrast to criticism from most
American think tanks who, while crediting the president with working to
fight terrorism, accuse him of either not doing enough or serving the
interests of the Pakistani Pushtuns who support the Taliban and host
foreign and Al-Qaeda fighters.
The September 1 agreement that Musharraf's regime signed with the tribals
in North Waziristan has worked precisely in that direction and incensed
Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Musharaf had also worked to rescue Pakistani nationals fighting alongside
the Taliban, when the latter's regime fell, allowing in the process many
key Taliban and Al-Qaeda hands to escape, they have said.
However, Sheuer takes a peep into American history to draw an analogy about
Musharraf's role.
"In future years, when America's defeat in Afghanistan is apparent, and if
he survives, Musharraf would be able to reflect on his relationship with
President (George W) Bush and say - as president Lincoln said about Union
General McClellan - 'Poor George, I did all I could to help him, but he
proved unable to do anything to help himself'."
source:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1884520,00050001.htm
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