Posts Tagged ‘america’

The attack on Marja is meant to prepare Americans to accept negotiations with Taliban

Ahmad Kamal, Pakistan’s former Ambassador to the United Nations, and Hassan Abbas, a former Pakistani government official who is now with the Asia Society, join Edie Magnus for a roundtable on AfPak. They discuss power-sharing with the Taliban, drone strikes along the Afghan border in northwest Pakistan and American foreign policy challenges in the region.

Monday’s Taliban assault on the Afghan capital has again ignited concerns NATO’s failing to combat terrorism there. After almost a decade of U.S. efforts to control the situation, locals say they’re too afraid of the militants to accept any help from Americans.