Afghanistan: The noise before defeat

War on Terror

16 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com

Afghanistan: The noise before defeat

By Ajai Sahni August 15, 2011 Barack Obama may project an ordered withdrawal from Afghanistan as victory but the truth is that America’s strategic failure in Afghanistan under his presidency has been worse than during the years of George W Bush. Backed by the Pakistani Army and the ISI, terrorist groups on both sides of the AfPak border are gaining ground while the US struggles with incoherence and the ISAF seeks to engage with an oxymoronic ‘moderate’ Taliban http://www.newageislam.com/war-on-terror/afghanistan--the-noise-before-defeat/d/5263