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The BHO regime has released a draft of the objectives for Afghanistan and Pakistan. It looks like we are at war with Pakistan now, declared or not. The entanglements don’t get much more foreign. There is no word on whether we will be greeted as liberators.
Afghanistan was invaded as a knee jerk reaction after 911. This is despite the fact that the temporary pilots were mostly Saudi, and the scheme was planned in Hamburg. The Taliban government appeared to be “harboring” Al Queda, and that was enough justification at the time. Since then, as the war drags into it’s second decade (decayed), new reasons keep popping up. Soon, the action spread into Iraq and Pakistan.
There will be a report made about the progress of the new and improved war on March 10, 2010. These reports will continue “at regular intervals thereafter”. It seems apparent that the United States is going to be in AfPak for a long, long time. This is the outline of the plan.
The goal of the United States is to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qa’ida in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future.
Objective 1. Disrupt terrorist networks in Afghanistan and especially Pakistan to degrade any ability they have to plan and launch international terrorist attacks.
Objective 2a. Assist efforts to enhance civilian control and stable constitutional government in Pakistan.
Objective 2b. Develop Pakistan’s counterinsurgency (COIN) capabilities; continue to support Pakistan’s efforts to defeat terrorist and insurgent groups.
Objective 2c. Involve the international community more actively to forge an international consensus to stabilize Pakistan.
Objective 3a. Defeat the extremist insurgency, secure the Afghan populace, and develop increasingly self-reliant Afghan security forces that can lead the counterinsurgency and counterterrorism fight with reduced U.S. assistance.
Objective 3b. Promote a more capable, accountable, and effective government in Afghanistan that serves the Afghan people and can eventually function, especially regarding internal security, with limited international support.
Objective 3c. Involve the international community more actively to forge an international consensus to stabilize Afghanistan.
The report has “metrics” that will be used to measure the progress in these seven areas. These landmarks are in this report. Reading them might give you a headache. For anyone with the time and inclination to mischief, it might be fun to take these metrics, apply them to the United States, and see how well we do at what we demand of others.