Sunday, October 18, 2009

Pakistani Anti-Taliban War: A US Opportunity

Pakistani Anti-Taliban War: US Should Supply Pakistan Smart Weapons

The ongoing military action against the Taliban that Pakistan has launched gives the United States a unique opportunity, to wage an effective surrogate war in the region and thus to offer an obvious answer to the question as to whether the United States should send additional troops into Afghanistan.

The answer is that the United States should not. It should instead, fully supply Pakistan with smart weapons and other military hardware, with which to crush the Taliban and Al Qaida, both inside Pakistan and within the border region with Afghanistan. The United States should also fund the recruitment of Pakistani and Afghan citizens into the fight. That is the best way to give Pakistanis and Afghans ownership of the battle, and to make way for a politically and militarily self-sustaining Afghanistan, when the United States withdraws its forces.

I thank you.

Fubara David-West.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Obama Deserves the Nobel Peace Prizev

Congratulations to President Obama for his Nobel Peace prize. Yes: there is a point to be made about whether the award reflects his life's work or not. However, such evaluations cannot come close to approximating mathematical exactitude, especially considering the fact that a singular event in the life of nations and peoples can change the course of history.

President Obama's election promises to be one of those events. His declared commitment to steer the most powerful country in the world towards its foundational ideals, in national and international politics, and the concrete steps he has taken since becoming president in January, thoughtfully to move the world away from the abyss of a new Cold War, should be enough to make him as worthy as anyone else of the Nobel Peace Prize.

I thank you.

Fubara David-West.
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