November 15, 2008
Dani Reshef
In a phone interview with BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner, broadcasted, on 11/13/2008 evening, in the Have Your Say' program, Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan, vowed to win Afghan fight and called for all foreign forces (NATO-ISAF) to leave Afghanistan.
Referring to elected President Barack Obama in USA, Zabihullah Mujahid said that Mr Obama's plans to deploy more troops would not defeat the Afghan insurgency.
The interview came to shed light on Afghanistan amide the visit of its President Hamid Krazai in UK (see - British interference). Hamid Krazai told the BBC he did not ask for the UK to send more troops, and admitted that his own government would need to do "a million times better" to bring peace and prosperity to Afghanistan.
In recent days there is an increase in Al Qaeda attacks in Iraq (see - Baghdad 11.12.08), which suggests that there is, maybe, a global strategy to track down USA troops in Iraq in order to disrupt Barack Obama's plan to shift focus from Iraq to Afghanistan by reducing the number of troops in Iraq and increasing the USA military presence in Afghanistan.
The first war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union lasted a decade, from 1979 up to 1989. Eventually the Russians left Afghanistan due to three reasons:
A. The war led nowhere and there were no signs of any substantial improvement in the Afghan regime and generally in the Russian prospective.
B. The Soviet Union plunged into a deep economical crisis boosted by the war in Afghanistan.
C. A new President, Michael Gorbachov, assumed power in Russia and promised to reshape Russia toward a more modern and humanitarian state.
Although USA is not the Soviet Union, its economy is much more flexible, efficient and creative and the American society is upholstered with a thick layer of cream, there is a strong feeling of Deja-vu as relating to Afghanistan. * Related topics - AMID US ELECTION ; DEAD-END ; Kunar Report ;
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