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The United States
invasion of Iraq is a failure and a foreign policy setback. It
may take more than a few decades to recover the financial
losses and repair America’s image in the world.
It has been argued,
and perhaps rightly so, that the war on terror is directly
responsible for an increase in terror and suicide bombings in
Pakistan. It is difficult to win the war by bombing innocent
tribesmen on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Only two decades
ago these warriors were recruited as Mujahideen by America and
they played a heroic role in winning the war against the
Soviet Union.
While elimination
of the hard-core terrorists cannot be disputed, there should
be a foolproof strategy to spare the innocent and the
politically unmotivated.
America cannot win
the hearts and minds of the Pakistan Tribes by bombing with
one hand and giving aid like creating ROZs with the other
hand.
By: Pervaiz Lodhie (email:
PLodhie@LEDtronics.com)
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