Afghanistan - The Forgotten Front - CAP's Wadhams Part 3

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/11/afghanistan_report.html
Six years after the United States led an invasion of Afghanistan to remove the Taliban from power and destroy Al Qaeda's safe haven, Afghanistan faces a growing insurgency that directly threatens its stability and the national security interests of the United States and its allies. The United States and the international community initially made great strides to oust the Taliban and Al Qaeda and stand up the Afghan government following the invasion in October 2001, but the situation has dramatically deteriorated since 2005. The Taliban and Al Qaeda have regrouped in the borderlands of Pakistan and Afghanistan and are supporting the Afghan insurgency while strengthening their own capabilities. Although the current administration has portrayed Iraq as the central front of the "global war on terror," Afghanistan and the borderlands of Pakistan remain the central battlefield. www.AMERICANPROGRESS.org

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[adnankhalid82]

wht the fuck US is doing in afghanistan?....taking the talibans dick in their ass for the last 8 years and now talking to them.....LOLZ.....bloody gay bastard americans...........!

[chikuanda]

forgotten genocide maybe...americans are there as an Imperial power, that's why no one in DC cares if they massacre hundreds at a time with airstrikes, and when Karzai feigns a complaint he's ignored like the puppet he is. the US has been successful though in increasing the number of euro-servant casualties by 50 percent over the last year!