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...hospital. "We plan to engage president Karzai," said National Security Advisor James Jones, in a briefing during the flight, "to make him understand that in this second term there are things he has to do." Among the issues on the table: government corruption, continued narcotrafficking, the reintegration of former Taliban insurgents into Afghan society and Karzai's appointments of "key government officials." (See pictures of life in the Afghan National Army...
...before withdrawals begin in July of 2011. In two major reviews in 2009, Obama also redefined the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, moving away from the stated Bush Administration goal of building an independent Afghan government to the goals of denying Al Qaeda a save haven and preventing a Taliban overthrow of the fledgling Karzai government...
Eventually the Taliban will want to return as well. Marjah is too big a prize - for its drug revenue and its propaganda value - to give up. Unlike the drug traffickers, insurgent fighters didn't have to go very far to hide from McChrystal's troops. Abdul Rahman Jan, a tribal elder and former Helmand-province police chief, points out that "hardly a single gun was captured by the NATO forces." He believes that many of the Taliban fighters simply moved back from their quarters inside Marjah's mosques and madrasahs to stay with their families. Wherever they are, the insurgents...
Chasing the Taliban...
...take on the Taliban [March 8]? The real question should be, Why are we fighting the Taliban? If we are victorious, then what? We cannot afford to continue propping up puppet regimes worldwide. Haven't we learned a lesson from Iraq...