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Afghan-US talks all talk and no deed - activist
Published: 13 May, 2010, 06:34
Edited: 03 June, 2010, 11:21
US, Washington: President Barak Obama (R) listens as Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (L) speaks during a joint press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, May 12, 2010. (AFP Photo / Jim Watson)
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As they prepare for a major military push in Kandahar, Presidents Hamid Karzai and Barack Obama emphasized their unity, following a recent plunge in relations. US activist David Swanson is skeptical about their talks.
Speaking in Washington, they said tension will always be present but pledged to fight on for Afghanistan's democratic future – including with non-military solutions.
However, author and activist David Swanson told RT he believes the talk is just rhetoric with no substance.
“It was striking that after 10 years, here was a press conference about this war [in Afghanistan], where all of the talk about progress was speculative about the future and there was nothing they could honestly say that had been accomplished up to this point,” Swanson said. "He [President Karzai] says the progress is being made on civilian casualties and then all he can point to is that they are having more talks about it.”
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Obama is following an age old U.S foreign policy. In Africa, the ME and Latin America, the U.S deals with dictators and crooks. That is, the U.S seeks to secure its strategic objectives through military means and by dealing with crooks and dictators. In the case of Afghanistan, the damage is greater than the bankruptcy of the U.S military intervention in that country. The failed U.S intervention in Afghanistan has also thoroughly exposed NATO for the impotent the U.S subservient it always has been. The end of U.S misguided military adventure in Afghanistan should therefore declare the end of NATO as well.