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Taliban ridicule US’s peace talks
Taliban ridicule US’s peace talks
Taliban ridicule US’s peace talks - Indian Punchline
By M K Bhadrakumar – August 23, 2011
I am left with no option but to take off my neck tie and shoes and jacket and roll on the ground right here in Brisbane. That is apparently the easiest way to gain a grip over uncontrollable laughter. Remember, I’d repeatedly warned the Americans they were playing with fire when they began the media campaign against Pakistan’s ISI and began pretending they have the wherewithal to directly get through to the Taliban leadership and get an Afghan settlement without Islamabad being in the loop.
The Americans should have remembered what the scriptures warned: “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.” The US, for sure, is reaping a bitter harvest. What else can I make of the taunting, mocking Taliban statement that Tayyab Agha never ever met the Americans? Someone in Afghanistan or Pakistan is making the CIA and the US state department and Pentagon and NATO and the Germans - the whole lot of them - look very foolish, indeed. And the Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid had the gumption to ridicule the US’s ‘Afghan hands’ in an open telephone conversation with a Pakistani newspaper in defiance of the US intelligence’s eavesdropping of any worthwhile telephone conversation in Pakistan! ZM has also given a ‘doosra’. He has indirectly let the Americans know Taliban’s military is being ‘modernised’. Do you get the point? It was one such ‘modernisation’ - stinger missiles - that proved a turning point in the jihad in the 1980s. Are the Taliban preparing to challenge American air power? They know US troops can’t fight without air cover. Or, are they getting rockets that can set the US bases on fire? Time will tell.
ZM reiterated that Taliban will oppose the US’ so-called ’strategic agreement’ with President Hamid Karzai on permanent American military bases in Afghanistan. Clearly, the US peace track - and Karzai’s peace track - has ended in a cul-de-sac. Now what? The US will go on fighting till 2024?
Posted in Politics.
Tagged with NATO, Taliban, Tayyab Agha, Zabiullah Mujahid.
By M K Bhadrakumar – August 23, 2011
Taliban ridicule US’s peace talks - Indian Punchline
By M K Bhadrakumar – August 23, 2011
I am left with no option but to take off my neck tie and shoes and jacket and roll on the ground right here in Brisbane. That is apparently the easiest way to gain a grip over uncontrollable laughter. Remember, I’d repeatedly warned the Americans they were playing with fire when they began the media campaign against Pakistan’s ISI and began pretending they have the wherewithal to directly get through to the Taliban leadership and get an Afghan settlement without Islamabad being in the loop.
The Americans should have remembered what the scriptures warned: “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.” The US, for sure, is reaping a bitter harvest. What else can I make of the taunting, mocking Taliban statement that Tayyab Agha never ever met the Americans? Someone in Afghanistan or Pakistan is making the CIA and the US state department and Pentagon and NATO and the Germans - the whole lot of them - look very foolish, indeed. And the Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid had the gumption to ridicule the US’s ‘Afghan hands’ in an open telephone conversation with a Pakistani newspaper in defiance of the US intelligence’s eavesdropping of any worthwhile telephone conversation in Pakistan! ZM has also given a ‘doosra’. He has indirectly let the Americans know Taliban’s military is being ‘modernised’. Do you get the point? It was one such ‘modernisation’ - stinger missiles - that proved a turning point in the jihad in the 1980s. Are the Taliban preparing to challenge American air power? They know US troops can’t fight without air cover. Or, are they getting rockets that can set the US bases on fire? Time will tell.
ZM reiterated that Taliban will oppose the US’ so-called ’strategic agreement’ with President Hamid Karzai on permanent American military bases in Afghanistan. Clearly, the US peace track - and Karzai’s peace track - has ended in a cul-de-sac. Now what? The US will go on fighting till 2024?
Posted in Politics.
Tagged with NATO, Taliban, Tayyab Agha, Zabiullah Mujahid.
By M K Bhadrakumar – August 23, 2011
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