good at it is screwing things up.

When you want to 'win the hearts and minds' of the people you attack and whose land you invade, you do not burn their holy books, espcially if the people happen to be Muslims and the book you burn is the Quran.

...lack of common sense...or is it just the qauity of US soldiery recruited from the slums refelctive of the society he/she lives in..........

What's up FP you are all quite on this

http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/26/sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-pakistan-can-fix-its-problems.html

Will these mutual tensions between Afghan government and ISAF hasten the departure of ISAF forces?

And if that happens, how long can Afghan government last against Taliban insurgency fueled from Pakistan?
Poor US and NATO!

They thought they had an ally in Pakistan when they started this Afghan war in 2001. How little did they understand their duplicitous ally when Bush administration allowed Musharraf to airlift thousands of Taliban operatives under the garb that if Bush did not, Pakistan will explode in November 2001.

That mistake of allowing airlifting of Taliban operatives cornered by the advancing Northern Alliance in Kunduz in November, 2001 has led to this endless war.

At the height of the siege of the northern town of Kunduz, Afghanistan in November, 2001, US and Northern Alliance troops were ordered to stand down as Pakistani Air Force transporters flew in and airlifted an unconfirmed number of Pakistani armymen and intelligence operatives. But not all of them were Pakistanis; America knew that a large number of them were Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders. The full story of this was told to the American people by journalist Seymour Hersh in the January 28, 2002 edition of New Yorker magazine. The Taliban cadres were airlifted by Pakistan to Quetta and North Waziristan to live, recuperate and terrorize for another day as it is happening now.

With an ally like Pakistan, US-led Afghan mission was doomed from the very beginning.

KABUL: The top US commander in Afghanistan has recalled all NATO personnel working in Afghan ministries in the Kabul area - a bold and potentially divisive response to the killing at the weekend of two American service members by an Afghan security official in the country's fortified Interior Ministry.

Marine General John Allen's directive on Saturday comes five days after US military personnel burned a pile of Korans at the largest military base in Afghanistan in an apparently inadvertent act that set off violent protests across the country. More than 25 Afghans have died in those demonstrations, and four NATO soldiers have been killed by men wearing Afghan security uniforms since Thursday, when the Taliban urged Afghan soldiers and police to turn their weapons on their Western counterparts.

The week's events have exposed a core vulnerability of the Obama administration's strategy for winding down the decade-long Afghan war: a fraying trust between two presumed allies who must depend on each other to keep the insurgency at bay. Although mutual suspicions have been building for some time, the Koran burnings, followed by the apparent revenge killings of US military personnel, will make it much harder for both sides to agree in the coming weeks on the specific terms and timetable of NATO's planned withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

NATO leaders are scheduled to hold a summit in May in Chicago, where they had hoped to finalise details of the withdrawal and the gradual handover of security responsibilities to Afghan forces, as well as report progress in fledgling negotiations with the Taliban.

But inflamed public anger among all sides could force a reassessment of those plans.

The tension has prompted apologies for the Koran burning from President Barack Obama and top US defence officials. But demonstrations continued unabated on Saturday, even before US officials reported that an Afghan security officer had killed an American colonel and major in one of Kabul's most important and most impenetrable ministries.

The two men, whose names have not been released, were shot in the back of the head while working at their desks.

Within hours of the attack, General Allen recalled Western advisers from Afghan ministries, citing ''obvious force protection reasons''. The decision will affect several hundred officials who work with the Afghan military and with a host of other government agencies, such as the education and agriculture ministries.

Fratricide has been a growing problem between Afghan soldiers and their foreign counterparts here. In the past, Western military advisers were told to operate cautiously after such incidents, but General Allen's decision represents the first time a commander has publicly withdrawn personnel from their posts for fear of attacks by men in Afghan uniforms.

The Taliban asserted responsibility for Saturday's attack, saying the shooter was an insurgent who had infiltrated Afghan security forces. Western military advisers were warned of a heightened risk of fratricide this week and told to stay out of Afghan ministries unless their activities were ''mission critical''.

The Washington Post

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Microsoft project 2010

It would appear that the Obama foreign policy is to apologize for the U.S. all over the world, sitting and listening to tyrants like Ortega and Chevaz as to how bad the U.S. is and not saying a word in oppositon, kissing rings of Saudi Princes whohold us hostage for oil because we won't drill for our own. My God even the President of France is calling him inexperienced and not really aware of the world around him. So in short our policy is one of appeasing dictators, bowing to despots, and let's not forge spending our childrens' money to thetune of 10 trillion dollars which will bring massive inflation soon to come. I wish I could apoligize to all the young people of the U.S. for such a bad stewership of their country..

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