Taliban/United Front alliance

["Karl Carlile" <dagda@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Despite increased and more intensive bombings by Washington  The National
Islamic United Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (the "United Front") now
say that they cannot mount a ground attack on Taliban frontline positions until
US carpet bombing is further increased. It is clear  that strategically the
United Front are delaying any offensive for other than the generally accepted
reasons offered within the media. The United Front is putting off a ground
offensive for as long as possible in the hope of forcing the US to deploy large
scale land forces in Afghanistan. In this way the US will have been further
sucked into the war thereby finding it increasingly difficult to extricate
itself in the face of failure. This means that the United Front forces cannot be
simply used by the US as mere mercenaries or proxy forces which to be abandoned
as soon as the US achieves its goals. The United Front and Taliban have learned
from the past practice of the US. After the US had used the mujahadeen to force
the USSR out of Afghanistan it was unceremoniously abandoned by the US. This
then led to the descent of Afghanistan into further economic and social
meltdown.

On a more venal note the United Front also know that significant US troops in
Afghanistan will mean more dollars and improving living standards for the United
Front forces. It must be remembered that many United Front soldiers have been
joined up, under conditions of poverty, for a square meal.

At the risk of gross exaggeration it may even be that the United Front and
Taliban have formed some form of tacit alliance  designed to force US troops
into Afghanistan. Both sides have may have much to gain by US land engagement.

Karl Carlile
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