Bomb blast outside Pakistani consulate at Herat wounds one.
Aljazeera International interviews Gen. David McKiernan, who sounds to me just like Barack Obama on Afghanistan– saying that he doesn’t have enough troops in Afghanistan, that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are resurgent, and that the big problem is Taliban sanctuaries in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.
“General David McKiernan, commander of the Nato led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, says his biggest problem is Taliban infiltration from across the border in Pakistan… “
Compare his comments to Obama’s Berlin speech concerning Afghanistan.
Two perspectives on Afghanistan:
Michael Scheuer, the former CIA head of the ‘tracking Bin Laden unit’, which Bush has now disbanded.
And from the left, , Sonali Kolhatkar of the US-based Afghan Women’s Mission.
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