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Pakistani Consulate bombed; NATO Commander in Afghanistan Calls for More Troops; Strikes same Notes as Obama

Juan Cole 07/31/2008

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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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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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