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January 28, 2010
TG-515
A little over one week ago in Kabul, the Taliban, reportedly working with al Qaeda, staged one of the most brazen attacks in recent memory.
At about 9:30 in the morning, a suicide bomber attempted to break through the gates of a key ministry building.
Security guards shot the attacker, who then detonated his suicide belt on the street, steps from the President's palace and the Ministry of Justice.
A six-hour gun battle ensued.
Quote from Wikipedia : Taliban
The Taliban (Pashto: طالبان ṭālibān, meaning "students"), also Taleban, is a Sunni Islamist political movement that governed Afghanistan from 1996 until they were overthrown in late 2001 during Operation Enduring Freedom.
It has regrouped since 2004 and revived as a strong insurgency movement governing at the local level and fighting a guerrilla war against the governments of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
The movement is made up of members belonging to different ethnic Pashtun tribes, along with a number of volunteers from nearby Islamic countries such as Uzbeks, Tajiks, Chechens, Arabs, Punjabis and others.
They operate in Afghanistan and Pakistan, mostly around the Durand Line regions.
U.S. officials say their headquarters is in or around Quetta, although Pakistan denies it.
At today's London conference, President Hamid Karzai declared: "We must reach out to all of our countrymen, especially our disenchanted brothers, who are not part of al-Qaida, or other terrorist networks, who accept the Afghan constitution."
Originally posted by timewalker
I think this might be pertinent to your thread. The U.N. seems to be undermining the CFR ideal of packing them into one radical group.
U.N. In Secret Peace Talks With Taliban
At today's London conference, President Hamid Karzai declared: "We must reach out to all of our countrymen, especially our disenchanted brothers, who are not part of al-Qaida, or other terrorist networks, who accept the Afghan constitution."
[edit on 28-1-2010 by timewalker]
Originally posted by timewalker
And let us never forget this one Zbigniew Brzezinski CFR member and Obama's
Chief Foreign Relations Advisor. Instigator of The Taliban and Al Qaeda. His hands are surely in this one.
[edit on 28-1-2010 by timewalker]
Kirkus Review : Amazon Review :
The former national security advisor is still a believer in geopolitics after all these years.
Like most foreign-policy aficionados weaned on the Cold War, Brzezinski (Out of Control, 1993) has been forced by the disintegration of the Soviet Union to broaden his perspective--but not very far.
He sees the US as the only global superpower, but inability to maintain its hegemony indefinitely means that ``geostrategic skill'' is essential.
To what end is not specified beyond the vague shaping of ``a truly cooperative global community'' that is in ``the fundamental interests of humankind,'' but in this genre, goals are commonly assumed rather than examined.
In any case, Brzezinski casts Eurasia as the playing field upon which the world's fate is determined and analyzes the possibilities in Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Balkans (interpreted broadly), and the Far East.
Like a grandmaster in chess, he plots his strategy several moves in advance, envisioning a three-stage development.
Geopolitical pluralism must first be promoted to defuse challenges to America, then compatible international partners must be developed to encourage cooperation under American leadership, and finally the actual sharing of international political responsibility can be considered.
The twin poles of this strategy are a united Europe in the West and China in the East; the central regions are more problematic and, for Brzezinski, not as critical in constructing a stable balance of power.
This updated version of East-West geopolitics is worth taking seriously but it is also an amazing example of how a perspective can be revised without actually being rethought.
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Originally posted by timewalker
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
Yeah I was hesitant to post the U.N. article, because it seemed to be the other side of the sword. CFR, U.N. hand in hand. Just a short cab ride up the east side. I always sucked at chess. That first interview you posted with ZB was great.
"of course there's such of thing as insidious influence, does it involve bribery, does it involve some kind of psychological domination of individuals?"
Phantom truth's that he does not answer.