You have a lot of suspicion from the neighbors of Afghanistan about U.S. intentions. Iran is already, to some extent, trying to undermine the U.S. in….

The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extr….

There's a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It do….

We should remember that the Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Of course, many of them did support the Taliban. But you cannot equ….

The biggest mistake Barack Obama could have made is to change quite a few things in his Afghanistan policy. He increased the number of troops and at ….

The West would be well advised to change its approach towards failing states. At present, no major power can find the correct ways and means - and th….

Dysfunctional states like Afghanistan need business people who are deeply rooted in their country and invest in it. They can add stability. But all d….

The Pashtuns feel discriminated against by the Americans because they supported the Taliban and the war is still going on in their region with contin….

America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with Hamid….

The fact that there are no longer large units of Al Qaeda running around means you don't need B-52s. You need intelligence and special forces. And, m….

There is no way the Americans are going to be able to carry out a full scale war against Iraq and at the same time maintain the same kind of pressure….

[Mullah Omar] gave himself this religious title. So it was something that all those people there who swore an oath of loyalty to him as a religious l….

Pashtun nationalism is reasserting itself. Its political history spans several hundred years. The Pashtuns are angry at the Americans because, one, t….

It would have been better if the United Nations had sent a team to Mali right away to mediate between the government and the rebels. But where is the….

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliba….

If Afghan soldiers continue to kill American soldiers as is happening these days, it can hardly be assumed that they will stay in Afghanistan in the ….

I am confident that there are hedge funds, banks or investment companies that could allocate five percent of their portfolios for risky investments. ….

Some Pakistanis fought for the Taliban. Pakistani extremist groups provided infrastructural support to Al Qaeda. There was a coming and going of Al Q….

The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical power plants, s….

The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence in Af….

The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back int….