Eight years after 9/11, the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is as lawless as ever and Osama bin Laden is still on the loose.
Should the U.S. move to secure this region, home to ranks of Taliban and al Qaeda leaders?
Bio
Pamela Constable
Pamela Constable has covered South Asia for The Washington Post since April 1999, with extensive coverage of Afghanistan as well as both India and Pakistan.
Before arriving in New Delhi in 1999, Constable worked for The Post from 1994 to 1998 covering immigration and Hispanic affairs in the Washington area, and reported from Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti and Cuba.
Prior to joining The Post, Constable worked for The Boston Globe as deputy Washington bureau chief and foreign policy reporter from June to September 1994. Previously, from 1983 until 1992, she was The Globe's roving foreign correspondent, Latin America correspondent and diplomatic correspondent. During this time she reported from Haiti, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, South Korea, the Philippines, the Soviet Union and Brazil, as well as in Washington.
From 1978 to 1982, she was a staff writer at The Baltimore Sun. Prior to that, she worked as a reporter for the Evening Capital in Annapolis.
She is the co-author with Arturo Valenzuela of A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet, and has written articles for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Current History and other publications. She was awarded an Alicia Patterson Fellowship in 1990 and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for coverage of Latin America in 1993.
Constable is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She received a B.A. from Brown University.
Daniel Markey
Daniel Markey is Former State Department policy planning staff member. His current work focuses on U.S. policy in South Asia, especially Pakistan and India.
How can anyone fall for such a bogus war?
This was a test for American public opinion prior to the real target of Iraq.
Once accepted it was abandoned, isn't this enough proof that Bin Laden was a scape goat, for Iraq. Now, it's back here to make more problems and profit.
We never hold up our end of the bargain because we have no intention to hold any bargain....We will not lend one dime towards helping the Afghanistan economy. We lie and cheat all humans with our imperialistic measures. Who or why would any country trust us? America will cause the downfall of the entire globe through Corporatist greed and power. There is absolutely no legitimate reason for America to be here in this Country. Do not believe the Corporate owned Media !
Make no mistake about it, America is not in Afghanistan because of Bin Laden or any sort of Terrorism this is simply propaganda to feed the American public.
War profits and oil pipelines are two of the major reasons. Our new puppet president, Obama , has lied and cheated the Democratic people as fraudulent as Bush did. Global Terrorism is a dream of the American Industrial War machine.
I do believe we have our sights set on Pakistan due to their nuclear capabilities.
You can bet the CIA has been working it's voodoo there all along.
Washington knows how to stop this war but won't because there is no profit in peace. Stop with the Bin Laden foolishness, he is dead and has been for a long time now. We are not as ignorant as you would assume.