Check U.S. cooperation with the Taliban

October 13th, 2009

The debate over the right strategy in Afghanistan is being heated. Thus, the war is not lost, are increasingly being considered daring ideas. How the U.S. government could will soon collaborate with the Taliban.

What next in Afghanistan? The U.S. policy has become increasingly divided. The influential Democratic Senator Carl Levin said yesterday, a change in strategy was more important than the increase in troop strength. To convince the Afghans of the success of the Western strategy had pushed back the corruption and improves the economic situation in the country.

Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain says, however, the application could only be won if the government of at least 40,000 more soldiers stationed in the Hindu Kush. Senator McCain, the highest-ranking Republican on Defense Committee, told CNN reject the recommendation of a much larger troop presence in Afghanistan would be “a mistake” of historic proportions.

All possible approaches to verify

Whether the chaos and the political wrangling for the right strategy for the mission in Afghanistan are increasingly riskier ideas are tested. So the White House has recently declared that the Taliban pose a lesser threat to U.S. security than al-Qaeda. A cooperation with moderate Taliban is openly reflected accordingly. To make the government a “wise” decision for further engagement in the Hindu Kush could, would “review all the possible approaches,” quoted the Austrian newspaper “Standard” Foreign Hillary Clinton.

This fed speculation that Obama might decide against an increase of U.S. troops. The U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal recently called for the deployment of 40,000 additional troops that the war could go to his statements otherwise be lost within a year. Behind this view there is also John McCain. Currently, about 68,000 American soldiers in Afghanistan are stationed.

President Barack Obama and senior advisors are currently examining future strategy for the mission in Afghanistan. Last week, he continued his work continued in a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In the conversation, it had gone to the “common strategic agenda” with regard to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said U.S. President spokesman Robert Gibbs.