India Being Drawn into Fight over Afghanistan


	India Being Drawn into Fight over Afghanistan

cptenaud

7-8-2008 10:12 PM

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india, afghanistan, taliban, pakistan

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7-9-2008 5:42 AM

vk2yoc

Worrying turn of events.

7-9-2008 9:38 AM

ratilfar

An explosive way to make the U.S. remember the fight it abandoned in Afghanistan.

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            <I>Tue Jul 08, 2008</I></H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1563"> The <A href="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1552">bombing</A> of the Indian embassy in Kabul yesterday highlighted one important aspect of the burgeoning conflict in Afghanistan: India's growing influence in the country is not welcomed by the Taliban or their allies in the Pakistani intelligence service.  In other words, another country--and a nuclear-armed one at that--is being drawn into the physical fight for space and influence in the troubled nation.
<P>From <A href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BOM126332.htm">Reuters</A>:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1563">The <A href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JG09Df02.html">Asia Times</A> is also reporting on the significance of this attack:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1563">At this point, we do not need any of the India-Pakistan strife spilling over into Afghanistan as a proxy war or, perhaps, as something worse.  This is clearly an ominous sign--and one that highlights the diplomatic and military neglect the region has suffered since 9/11 at the hands of the Bush administration.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D14D702B-87D6-4F5D-B424-1C444889A3C9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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