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Article: AfghanistanAEs Engagement Deadlock.
- Article from:
- Khaleej Times (Dubai, United Arab Emirates)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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Summary: Protracted military engagement is the least desirable option in military circles. It is equally tedious for politicians running the show. It becomes trickier when it is a nationalist insurgency, drawing its support among the population. Such is the case in Afghanistan.
Despite the dissenting voices crying hoarse that insurgency is surviving only by terrorising people and by getting support from across the border, the reality is otherwise. It is not possible that these factors could drive the insurgency. The eight year long war is now taking on the shape of a farce. No laughing matter, it comes at a very heavy cost.
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