Mr Musharraf attacked the West's strategy in Afghanistan yesterday, and said that the task could not be achieved by military action alone. He added that only Pakistan was implementing the right strategy. He called on the West to implement a plan of billions of dollars of aid to rebuild Afghanistan, just as the US spent billions of dollars rebuilding Europe after the Second World War.This "right strategy" seems to me to be exporting the terrorists who learn their skills in Pakistan to old Blighty and thus removing the threat of "the Taleban crossing the border to safe havens in Pakistan's largely lawless northwest provinces". For this the Pakistanis appear to be demanding the Anglo-Americans pay up roughly 10% of their combined federal budget as with the Marshall Plan...
Sunday, November 19, 2006
We need a Marshall Plan to beat the Taleban, Pakistan tells Blair
According to an article in today's Times,