Afghan withdrawal would hurt India: McCain

[Shehbaz Khan]

WASHINGTON: US Senator John McCain appealed on Friday to President Barack Obama to stay engaged in Afghanistan, warning that a hasty troop withdrawal would jeopardise warming ties with India.
The senior Republican senator from Arizona pledged support for India across the US political divide in an address delivered just as Obama flew off for a trip meant to breathe new life into the relationship.
But McCain, whose Republican Party made strong gains in congressional elections on Tuesday, warned Obama against pulling out of Afghanistan “before positive conditions can be shaped and sustained on the ground.”
The consequences would “certainly be terrible for us, but they will even be worse for India, which will have a terrorist safe haven on its periphery,” McCain said at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“I can think of few more immediate ways to damage the US-India relationship — and to convince India that the United States is both a declining power and an unreliable partner — than for us to pull out of Afghanistan before achieving our goals,” McCain said.
Obama has tripled US forces in Afghanistan since defeating McCain for the White House, pledging to root out the Taliban whose extremist regime was ousted by US-led forces following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
But Obama also in December set a goal of starting to withdraw troops in mid-2011 depending on conditions on the ground.
Obama advisers have stressed that the United States will remain committed to Afghanistan but said that the timeline is needed to pressure President Hamid Karzai to take more responsibility for security.
Opinion polls show weakening US support for the war, with some of Obama’s Democratic supporters calling for the United States to devote resources back at home after spending more than one trillion dollars in Afghanistan and Iraq.


http://thenews.com.pk/06-11-2010/World/14002.htm

[khushal]

Who cares if it hurst india. You are brainwashed to think to much about india. That is all on your mind. The whole india was stolen from you by ali jinnah and the british. You are too naive to think about that. Wake up

Your brain: Must concentrate on india

American brain: Must concentrate on muslim terrorist

Pakistani elite: haha control is easy when you keep them scared

American elite: haha control is easy when you keep them scared

Osama: lets try destroying the west by putting a bomb in an underwear, lets see if that works

[Shehbaz Khan]

Haha, its never on my mind you want to comment on the news I shared you are welcome you don't want to than leave comment on the news not on my brain

[KhyberKhan]

india is pakistanis bogey man.

Seriously, get on with your lives instead of worrying about indians. India is progressing rapidly and is even pursuing projects into space, whilst pakistan, with its inferiority complex is wondering how much more of its citizens it can sell for shiny American toys.

If India wanted, it would march straight through punjab and cut it in half, it is more than well equipped to do so, instead, it would rather beat pakistan to a pulp economically and continue to focus on developing its own citizens by outputting some of the highest number of graduate engineers and programmers year upon year.

What's the net result of all this - Every western leader is now pandering to India from Obama to Cameron to get trade deals signed and in the process badmouthing Pakistan whenever they visit Delhi, just to ensure they are rubber-stamped.

Now that's what i call influence.

[afghan]

the other day i came throuh another article.

ISI Still Supporting Insurgency: John McCain

Tolo news
November 6, 2010
The Pakistani intelligence is still supporting the insurgents, the US Democrat senator John McCain said
John McCain, the former candidate for the United States' presidential elections said Pakistan's intelligence is using the insurgency as a political tool to gain further influence in the region.
He also warned that the pull-out of foreign forces from Afghanistan before their withdrawal timeline will cause the insurgents to gain strength in the region.
The untimely withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan will also have a negative impact over relations between Washington and the New Delhi, Mr McCain said.
Meanwhile, the Deputy of the Afghan president's spokesperson, Siamak Herawi, said the untimely withdrawal of foreign forces can cause threats to the region.
"Undoubtedly, the situation in Afghanistan and in general the situation in the region will have a direct impact over India and other countries in the region," he said.
But some political analysts believe that the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan will have a positive impact over the situation in the country.
"If the international community once again hands over Afghanistan to Pakistan and would control the Afghan government through Pakistan, this will create tesions and India will react to it," Ahmad Zia Nikbin, a political analyst said.
The US president Barack Obama's advisors have stressed that the United States will remain a strategic partner of Afghanistan, but there is a strong need for a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan and to put pressure on the Afghan president Hamid Karzai to take Afghan security responsibilities soon.