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.