Indian Fake news: What India risks if it gets on board Trumps Afghanistan project

[MyNameIsKhan]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/what-india-risks-if-it-gets-on-board-trump-s-afghanistan-project/story-GjDyaNxuLqQFPuM3NT27uM.html

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India has to trust that Trump will do what Bush nor Obama didn’t, and go the distance, sticking to his word on Afghanistan. Let us be under no illusion that his stated goals can be achieved in a couple of years. The history of Afghanistan suggests it will more likely take decades, even with the sustained best efforts of the US and its allies.

Delhi’s quandary: What if Trump or his successor changes their mind and pulls out in 5/10 years? Even if the task is unfinished, it would be easy for the next occupant of the White House to dismiss the Afghanistan project as Trump’s folly, and spin a withdrawal as in America’s interest. Obama did that in Iraq, to his great political gain.

But an American change of heart would leave India badly exposed: unlike the US, India can’t simply pull up stakes and leave Afghanistan to the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, the Islamic State, and any other wolves in the pack that Pakistan nurtures. The US may bear the greater share of the cost of Trump’s project, but the stakes are higher for India.

So, much as the American President would like India along for the ride in Afghanistan, Delhi has much to ponder before climbing on board.

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Even a bigger issue, I see is Trump remaining completing his term ... a weak President piggybacking on other country to satisfy his ego. The way chetto declared yesterday:

That is why shortly after my inauguration, I directed Secretary of Defense Mattis, and my national-security team, to undertake a comprehensive review of all strategic options in Afghanistan and South Asia. My original instinct was to pull out, and historically, I like following my instincts. But all my life I've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office. In other words, when you're president of the United States. So I studied Afghanistan in great detail, and from every conceivable angle. After many meetings, over many months, we held our final meeting last Friday at Camp David with my Cabinet and generals to complete our strategy. I arrived at three fundamental conclusions about America's core interests in Afghanistan.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He attacked Pakistan, ruined our relationship with them.

A country like Sweden needs to take over America, right away.

[maxrandb]

2. It's fucking INSANE!!!

India is the largest fucking Democracy on the fucking planet...AND WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A FUCKING AMBASSADOR to India at the moment.

- The fucking diplomatic detail that has been working in the Afghan region for close to a decade has been disbanded and we have over 250 fucking State Department jobs sitting empty.

and if you listen to the MSM, it's all fucking normal

The piece of shit reads a fucking teleprompter like he's at a fucking tennis match (look left---look right---look left)

Fuck, I've heard the expression "whistling past the graveyard", but America is fucking marching past the fucking graveyard with a fucking tuba.

It's fucking INSANE!!!