Summary
Will a special forces officer think that guerrillas with refuge in an inaccessible and unconquered region, amidst a tri-national ethnic population of some 40 million fellow-Pathans, can be beaten by guided bombs or Special Forces raids? Or that an unenthusiastdc Pakistani army will do the job? Or 70,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, when the Taliban can always refuse battle and pull back into the mountains? [...] what is supposed to be accomplished by this war against the Taliban, which threatens to leave Afghanistan in ruins and to tear Pakistan apart?
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Cambodia: A Sinister Precedent?
Last September, during the American presidential campaign, I wrote a column declaring that the United States had again invaded Cambodia, only this time "Cambodia" was Pakistan. President George W Bush had ordered U.S. ground attacks on the TaUban inside Pakistan's Tr...
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