Newsletter 2009/11/04 - Total Loss
KABUL/BERLIN/WASHINGTON (Own report) - German-American negotiations on the occupation strategy for Afghanistan are being flanked by growing tensions in the north of the country. While German Chancellor Angela
Merkel was discussing the situation in Afghanistan, Tuesday with US
President Barack Obama, one of the most notorious Afghan warlords was
positioning himself in the north of the country. Abdul Rashid Dostum, a current ally of Hamid Karzai, only recently returned from exile. He is a rival to the Governor of Mazar-e-Sharif, where the German Bundeswehr maintains a large base. An escalation is not to be excluded. The situation is being made more difficult through Washington's contemplations of downgrading the pact with Hamid Karzai and cooperating directly with individual warlords - a plan that accepts the possibility of the total disintegration of Afghanistan. In Berlin one hears more admissions of the defeat of the West. For example the Heinrich Boell Foundation, affiliated to the German Green Party, which up to now has had not problem in supporting the occupation policy, has declared that "with the warlords of the North Alliance, [the west] has installed a corrupt and undemocratic new leadership in the country." A disgruntled media is reporting that parallel to the withdrawal of the west, looming on the horizon, China is strengthening its standing in Afghanistan.
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