2/25/2008

Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) said, on February 25, 2008: ” ‘Six years after we’ve ousted the Taliban…Afghanistan is a forgotten war, and that country, in my view, is slipping into failure–or toward failure. The Taliban is back. Al Qaeda is regenerated along the border. Violence is up and drug production is booming, and the Afghan people have very little faith in the ability of their government to deliver a better future. …Pakistani cooperation in the fight against extremism…has been sporadic at best. The reason is that, until recently, the terrorists we’re fighting and the extremists the Pakistani fear are not one and the same.’ “

 – Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink, Pages 71-72