Afghanistan’s Former Spymaster Warns of Civil War

[Killswitch]

Afghanistan’s Former Spymaster Warns of Civil War | Afghanistan / Pakistan | FRONTLINE | PBS

 

[Sher Malang]

Afghanistan’s former spy chief Amrullah Saleh spoke to NPR this morning about the new strategic partnership agreement President Obama and Hamid Karzai struck earlier this week. The agreement, as the AP explains, “Essentially gives both sides political cover: Afghanistan is guaranteed its sovereignty and promised it won’t be abandoned, while the U.S. gets to end its combat mission in the long and unpopular war but keep a foothold in the country.”

“It’s a good step towards reassuring the Afghans they will not be abandoned like in 1989,” Saleh told Morning Edition‘s Renée Montagne. “I look at this as hardening Afghanistan so it can’t be played with by either neighbor of us. We are in a bad neighborhood and that’s a very well known fact.”

Saleh has long been critical of Pakistan, and in a FRONTLINE profile last year, he laid out specific allegations about its ties to the Taliban and Haqqani network. (Watch the story above.)

Despite what he sees as the merits of the partnership agreement, Saleh warned of the “strategic mistake the U.S. has committed” in its openness to talk to the Taliban. “By offering to talk to them you legitimize militancy,” he said.

“If [the Taliban] destroy the foundations of a pluralistic Afghanistan which we have created with the U.S. assistance,” he tells NPR, “that is a recipe for civil war.”


Full article, the source is trolling I guess Amrullah Saleh is one good guy but he is now in the opposition and the opposition is against negotiations with Taliban.

 

[Killswitch]

I'm not trolling, I thought members might like to see the video, that's all.

 

[Sher Malang]

I'm not trolling, I thought members might like to see the video, that's all.

I was referring to www.pbs.org; the title of the page!

 

[darkinsky]

its no secret afghanistan will break once US is gone

 

[Sher Malang]

its no secret afghanistan will break once US is gone

And US is gone no where nor she will. Try to read/watch the video he isn't referring to US withdrawal but negotiations with Taliban, simply he is saying if in case Taliban comes into power with these negotiations of USA we may grab our weapons again.