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This difficulty has an explanation: it is enough to have some knowledge of Afghanistan to know that strategy, based on military action, leads nowhere. It is a tactic to suppress the symptoms of a deeper problem, that of anarchy and alienation that plagues much of Afghanistan. Gone are the days where NATO generals swore by a method of ridding the country of the Taliban, placing men all over, then build an Afghan state. Today, we consider a policy that would surge to reinforce those already working in the military and Development (the strategy of Bush's surge, sending massive forces to Iraq in 2007 -2008). But nothing concrete has been done to the political offensive. Outside the territory of Afghanistan, where NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) talks about reconciliation but continues to wage war. Since he arrived in his head, General Petraeus has tripled the number of Special Forces operations,christian louboutin shoes as well as the amount of munitions dropped in air strikes. But it's illusions as to believe that such an approach can bring the Taliban to the table of negotiations for the withdrawal of Western forces expected in 2014. In the famous manual-insurgency against the U.S. military, it is said that the fight against the insurgency is played on a political level. Yet Westerners have no serious policy has to do with the Pashtun south and east, long-suffering and have an alternative: either the expected rigor of the Taliban, or the depredations of arbitrary small heads of war and mafias. No "state" of Afghanistan can not hope to survive between the two oceans raging. Nor can emerge after more than thirty years of conflict that have disrupted the company, any "state" of Afghanistan. Nothing concrete is not done to improve collaboration with Afghanistan's neighbors to establish a peace that they would all benefit. Bilateral meetings will never replace the integration of these countries as part of the process. Nor are the conferences like the one held in December in Istanbul, or of Bonn, as they summarize in a round of ministerial positions. To manage the Afghan problem would have required integrating regional powers to ongoing negotiations, under the aegis of the UN and supported by vigorous diplomatic efforts by the United States and the European Union. In addition to the primacy of politics, all good cons-insurgency manual asks a series of specific principles to win wars. One of these principles is to have military and police in sufficient quantities to patrol the entire infected area. Even with the reinforcements sent by Barack Obama, even when the Afghan army and police have reached the size advertised, we never approaches the density of forces needed for a classic insurgency against Afghanistan. And even should we have strength in numbers, Jimmy Choo Pumpswe will always lack the strength necessary to maintain strategic long enough to make a difference. Another fundamental principle is to block access to insurgent sanctuaries to which they flee. Yet again we have no strategy, both inside Afghanistan, where large areas are beyond the control of the ISAF, or in neighboring countries. For now, our "strategy", we do little more than moving air. And these are just some of the most monumental flaws of a "strategy" in which Western nobody believes. I doubt that private Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron still believes that the military campaign in Afghanistan would lead to lasting success in the terms or according to the schedule that we recommend. Nor Stanley McChrystal, the predecessor of General Petraeus in command of ISAF. The difficulties we face in Afghanistan were predictable, and even planned. However, the political wisdom would be to adopt a long-term perspective, to choose the path of honesty, and opt for the approach above all political, two-level (internal to Afghanistan, and regional), that all observer known essential purpose, but not sufficient: in this strategy above all politics, there would still be room for an intelligent and targeted use of military force, which, instead of dictating strategy, would this time in his service. To rebuild Afghanistan, we need more patience, resources and political sensitivity that can not mobilize a coalition led by the United States. Only then we can leave with dignity. But it is a pressure exerted in another direction: the need to know that our soldiers did not die for nothing. 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" The choice of "mount" a "" the inquiry, "the G20 made headlines almost every day, including Saturday, said the director, who was in control of the closure on that day. The" one "is both a flash and an info window, it reflects the richness and diversity of our offer." The new format of the weekend, launched recently, is precisely to offer readers the full range of content produced by journalists of daily life, in particular by "showcase" the supply of supplements, including "World Television" is game. "From this point of view," a "in question perfectly met that goal," concludes Erik Izraelewicz. Endgame? Not so simple. In this era of rising populism and outrage in all directions, the world would he play with fire? The risk that the Sparks Fly as you would know ...Vibram Five Fingers Classic Some of our readers think, even if they say more measured. "Putting on the same level as dissimilar as two business journalist and politician is not reasonable, said Yves Le Gall (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines). The term" pluralist "is not neutral, c ' is a look at the other supported employment (policies) that, in fact, suffering from multiple directorships. Democracy needs quality, not quantity. As for journalists, it's about serious ethical and not the number or frequency. " Some implicitly encourage us to go further. As Serge D'Ignazio (Antony, Hauts-de-Seine), who would have liked to know more "wage" cumulative "of the omniscient, the gentlemen we are repeating antenna length that it is economically impossible to increase the low wages, that officials involved with the deficit of the French economy, etc... " "It is journalists like lawyers, there are the corrupt, the worldly and dippers, says Gaëtan Calmes, Notre-Dame-de-Monts, in Vendee. N'amalgamons not but remain vigilant. Encourage those who deserve respect, much remains in our newspaper. " Duly noted. The mediator is not there to stir up controversy, but to try to turn it off. It does not, however, resist the pleasure to conclude by quoting another of our colleagues, Xavier Panon (which we wrote as a private customer in the world). About our survey of "dippers", he borrowed another term topical, wondering "where is the line between information and the show for which the" media traders "are paid?" "Traders media." Nice formula ... An opinion on the question, Mr. Aphatie? Remember the address:Vibram Five Fingers Sprint mediateur@lemonde.fr. We would have, if not a pleasure to publish your mail with that of other players in its place, not "showcase" but on the blog "The World of readers" (http://mediateur.blog. lemonde.fr /).

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