12-11-2009, 12:54 PM
India withdraw from Kashmir? I'm certain India agreed to no such thing. At best they might be talking about reducing troops at the de facto border to build confidence.
I don't see anything novel or foreign-policy-coup-like in Obama betraying his allies and puppets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The US always does this. They did this with Prince Sihanouk in Cambodia, then overthrow the military junta they had put in power to let the Khmer Rouge have a crack at things. Usually these policy decisions seem to be made on an ad hoc basis by CIA acting in the best interests of Dope, Inc.
Obama's current media play on Afghanistan is already a major spectacle with multiple trial balloons. The latest installment includes Karl Eikenberry, the American warlord trned ambassador to Afghanistan, leaking confidential memos to Obama on the unworthiness of Karzai as a puppet.
This is a sophisticated gamre of good cop/bad cop. White House leaks that it is secretly supporting Karzai in the fraudulent election and leaks the opposite information, that they're done with Karzai. Maximum chaos. Credible threat of Taleban resurgence fabricated by US proxies attacking UN election workers in Kabul.
What's the goal? Obama travels to Asia and probably visits the Afhgan village of Baraki Barak, where Eikenberry went last week. Afghan children with dirty faces beg for water. It's a photo-op for continued "humanitarian assistance" to Afghanistan a la Ethiopia during the 1980s drought.
All the posing in Washington by Obama is for media consumption. He will not withdraw from Afghanistan, nor will he commit 400,000 more troops. Instead, he'll propose some "radical new vision" of cooperation for Central Asia. The US will seek not to withdraw until the Afghan soil is depleted to the point it no longer supports a poppy crop. IMHO.
I don't see anything novel or foreign-policy-coup-like in Obama betraying his allies and puppets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The US always does this. They did this with Prince Sihanouk in Cambodia, then overthrow the military junta they had put in power to let the Khmer Rouge have a crack at things. Usually these policy decisions seem to be made on an ad hoc basis by CIA acting in the best interests of Dope, Inc.
Obama's current media play on Afghanistan is already a major spectacle with multiple trial balloons. The latest installment includes Karl Eikenberry, the American warlord trned ambassador to Afghanistan, leaking confidential memos to Obama on the unworthiness of Karzai as a puppet.
This is a sophisticated gamre of good cop/bad cop. White House leaks that it is secretly supporting Karzai in the fraudulent election and leaks the opposite information, that they're done with Karzai. Maximum chaos. Credible threat of Taleban resurgence fabricated by US proxies attacking UN election workers in Kabul.
What's the goal? Obama travels to Asia and probably visits the Afhgan village of Baraki Barak, where Eikenberry went last week. Afghan children with dirty faces beg for water. It's a photo-op for continued "humanitarian assistance" to Afghanistan a la Ethiopia during the 1980s drought.
All the posing in Washington by Obama is for media consumption. He will not withdraw from Afghanistan, nor will he commit 400,000 more troops. Instead, he'll propose some "radical new vision" of cooperation for Central Asia. The US will seek not to withdraw until the Afghan soil is depleted to the point it no longer supports a poppy crop. IMHO.