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War on Terror

Lost war in Afghanistan

Aijaz Zaka Syed I Arab News

Friday 29 August 2008 (28 Sha`ban 1429)

There are reports of at least a hundred girls’ schools in Pakistan’s Swat region being burned down by the militants. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of Islam knows that these actions strike at the very heart of the great faith and what it stands for. But this is not a debate about Islam and how the zealots like Taleban are distorting it.

What really intrigues me is the fact that in spite of these patently absurd actions by the insurgents, support for them continues to grow in Afghanistan as well as in Pakistan.

The more the “Coalition of the Willing” pours in billions of dollars in funds, tens of thousands of the world’s finest soldiers and the most lethal arms and ammunition in Afghanistan, the more they seem to lose against an enemy that was supposed to have been destroyed in the 2001 invasion. An enemy that has no ostensible external support and few weapons continues to give the reigning superpower and its equally powerful allies a run for their money.

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