10 years on, war is still going on in Afghanistan.

US has to thank Pakistan with more aid for this unending war.

America’s mollycoddling of Pakistan at the expense of Afghanistan has brought Pakistan rich dividends with more to come.

America has known all along the duplicitous game that Pakistani State has been playing since 2001. Bush administration just consciously decided to keep it under wraps after forcing Pakistan to join America’s fight against terrorism that Pakistani State itself created.

The seeds of the ‘current Afghan tragedy’ were sowed in Washington when Bush administration decided to allow Musharraf to spirit away by airlift hundreds, if not thousands, of Taliban operatives cornered by the advancing Northern Alliance in Kunduz in November, 2001. Pakistan relocated those Taliban cadres including Mullah Mohammed Omar to Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan (now relocated to Karachi by Pakistani ISI to protect them from possible US drone attacks) and Haqqani network (HQN) to North Waziristan from where Mullah Omar’s QST and Haqqani’s HQN have been planning raids in Afghanistan ever since.

U. S. has deliberately deluded itself about Afghan Taliban’s Pakistani connections in fueling and sustaining Afghan insurgency as reported by Matt Waldman in ‘The sun in the sky‘ on 6/13/2010, corroborated by WikiLeaks leaks on 7/25/2010 and then further corroborated by Chris Alexander, Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005 and Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan from 2005 until 2009 in his article on 7/30/2010 titled ‘The huge scale of Pakistan‘s complicity‘.

Duplicitous Pakistan has successfully blackmailed U. S. - U. S. can NOT use its aid leverage to force Pakistan to stop supporting terrorist groups who kill US/NATO troops in Afghanistan day in and day out since 2001 because US needs Pakistan’s help in ferrying supplies to those very US/NATO troops.

And after ten long years of war fueled and sustained by America’s own ally Pakistan, US is ready to throw in the towel. Obama administration is already begging Pakistan to provide access to Afghan Taliban leaders safely ensconced under Pakistani ISI/Army's protection. A facade of peace deal as dictated by Pakistan will be reached with Afghan Taliban leaders chosen by Pakistan. US will begin its drawdown and finally exit the theater of a war it is desperate not to be seen as having lost, not so much to the Taliban and Al Qaeda as to the wily Generals of Rawalpindi who have proved to be smarter than the Americans.

That facade of peace will crumble within few years after the departure of US troops and Pakistan will bring Afghanistan under its suzerainty with reimposition of Taliban rule just as it did in 1996 while Uncle Sam will helplessly look the other way.

Tell the German Foreign Office to push for a positive outcome at Bonn by taking action here: http://www.togetherafghanistan.org/bonncampaign/bonntwitter.html
And check out the #CommitAtBonn feed from earlier today - experts, Afghan delegates and David Miliband discuss Afghanistan and hopes/fears for the Bonn conference.

One most important lesson that stands out is that Afghanis as a nation have never been defeated nor the ever will be defeated. One or many more decades, blame pakistan, muslims or what have you. Try harder!!!!!

i Agree in Pakistan 'duplicity' why don't you ever mention India, Pakistan's enemy, a country four times as large, with ten times the economy and a much stronger military, and which threatens Pakistan in Afghanistan...thanks ! Seguro Imoveis Massagistas Acompanhantes Ar Condicionado Carro