Does anybody know what really is going on in Afghanistan? If it was not for the tragedy of the loss of life -coalition troops and Afghans- it could makes us laugh. Weeks ago we were reading in the New York Times and other papers about the peace talks that supposedly were going on in Kabul between Hamid Karzai and a Taliban leader. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the agreements taken at the NATO summit in Lisbon was that after the coalition would start turning the security control to the Afghans this spring, the transition would be completed by the year 2014. Even if the NATO leaders approved this, Western experts have indicated that the majority of Afghanistan’s police are untrained and do not know the law. Read the rest of this entry »

Spain was mourning today the death of two Spanish officers and their interpreter, a Spanish citizen of Iranian origin, who were slain yesterday in Afghanistan. The killings took place in Badghis province in the northwest of the country , where Spanish forces are training police recruits as part of a NATO effort to turn over responsibility for security to the Afghan army and police. Read the rest of this entry »

Plans made for Afghanistan by the Obama administration are not going totally according to the goals that were made. Maybe because in some cases they appeared to be more wishes that real plans for something that could succeed. In any case, the so much talked about ’surge’ has had mixed results. Read the rest of this entry »

This past weekend marked 22 years since the Soviet troops began leaving Afghanistan after eight years of occupation. The US and the coalition forces should be aware of that and hope that history does not repeat itself. Specially now that things are not really going that well in that country for the coalition troops with the rate of attacks doubling from a year ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems to be enjoying the visits to his neighbors. First he went to Syria and now he just arrived in Kabul, by a curious -maybe- coincidence just before the departure of the American Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Read the rest of this entry »

It would appear that in the push to win the hearts and minds of the Afghans NATO is taking good care of some of them, specially of those appointed as top officials in Marja, the area where the surge against insurgents is taking place. Read the rest of this entry »