Summary
This is what looks likely to change. In Barack Obama's visit to Afghanistan last weekend, the message of the would-be next president was that he would not be quite so squeamish about taking the fight over this border. 'If Pakistan cannot or will not act, we will take out high-level terrorist targets like bin Laden if we have them in our sights, ' he said.
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Don't Mention the Afghan-Pakistan War
At a recent dinner party in the British embassy in Kabul, one of the guests referred to 'the Afghan-Pakistan war'.
The rest of the table fell silent. This is the truth that dare not speak its name. Even mentioning it in private in the Afghan capital's green zone is enough to solicit murmurs of disapproval. Few want to accept that the war is widening; that it now involves Pakistan, a country with an unstable government and nuclear weapons.But in fact the military commanders know that they are deali...See the full content of this document
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