[Marxism] Afghan-Pakistan war council in DC prepares more escalation

[Greg Dunkel]

With respect to India, Xinhua is reporting that India was invited:

India not to attend conference on Afghanistan with Pakistan, U.S.
www.chinaview.cn 2009-02-21 23:49:23 	  

    NEW DELHI, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- India will not attend a U.S.-sponsored conference on the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan-Afghan border areas to be held in Washington next week, although the United States has invited India to attend, reported the private Indo-Asian News Service Saturday.

    India prefers to wait and watch the situation before getting involved in the domestic affairs of Afghanistan, said the report, quoting official sources.
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On help from Nato, Gates & other Nato defense (should be "war") ministers met in Krakow last week 
and Gates was politely told that he would only get hundreds of additional bodies from Nato, not thousands, and they would be aimed at development & training, not combat.  Some Polish leftists, called anarchists by the Polish media, held a protest and denounced Nato as expansionist & non-defensive.

/greg

-----Original Message-----
>From: Fred Feldman <ffeldman at bellatlantic.net>
>Sent: Feb 24, 2009 11:05 AM
>To: gdunkel at mindspring.com
>Subject: [Marxism] Afghan-Pakistan war council in DC prepares more escalation
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>http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/410781/afghan_pakistan_war_council
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>... And, while it's true that
>Obama's Afghan-Pakistan review is still underway, the president himself
>isn't saying much about involving India, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia and
>China in bolstering both Pakistan's and Afghanistan's feeble overtures for a
>deal.
>
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>But America's allies in NATO aren't likely to step up support for the war.
>(Obama will make a pitch to them directly during a high-stakes NATO summit
>in April.) 
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