Re: [Marxism] Pilger

[abu hartal <abuhartal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr Proyect,
What do you understand to be the long and short term
objectives of organizations such as the Taliban, 
the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Gulbuddin Heckmatyar'ss Hizbe Islami and 
Al Qaeda (they are by the way neither Marxist nor popular
movements rooted in the oppressed peasantry or a disguised working class)? 
What would be the implications of their grabbing centralized
political power? Should Karzai negotiate with them given 
the present balance of power? What would be the outcome?
I  understand the grounds for skepticism of 
the possibility of humanitarian intervention, but you act as if you
are not concerned about the security implications of allowing the Afghan
National Army to be routed by such forces. 



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> From: abuhartal@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Pilger
> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:42:11 +0000
> 
> 
> Pilger forgets that last August Obama decried the killing
> of Afghani civilians by the US army. Karzai praised him;
> the American political establishment accused him of treason. 
> It's the point I decided to support him. Pilger has forgotten.
> In fact Obama wants more ground troops so that the NATO 
> forces don't have to rely so heavily on these
> murderous air strikes and so  the Afghan National Army is not a 
> simply a sitting duck for the ever more ambitious Taliban forces, intent on 
> turning
> victory in Afghanistan into a full scale presence in Kashmir, given
> the role of India in Taliban and al Qaeda demonology.  
> 
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