Peter Galbraith, Afghanistan shows signs of cracking: Times Argus Online

Vermont’s foremost expert on Afghanistan issued a gloomy diagnosis for prospects there in a speech he gave in Bellows Falls on Thursday.

Peter Galbraith, who is running for the state Senate from Windham County, said the U.S. war effort there cannot knit together a country that is fracturing along ethnic lines and President Obama ought to bring the troops home.

Galbraith views Afghanistan through the lens of its ethnic divisions, which are mirrored in the struggle between the Taliban and other factions. The dominant ethnic group in Afghanistan is the Pashtuns, who rule the south and east where the Taliban is strong. Not all Pashtuns of those regions favor the Taliban, but the Taliban is almost completely Pashtun and represents the most cohesive and ruthless force in its region. .... - Afghanistan shows signs of cracking: Times Argus Online
يو بل امريکايي سياستوال هم د افغانستان د تجزيې وړانديز وکړ

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