Last week, President Obama outlined his new plan to treat the Afghanistan conflict and the issues with Pakistan as one and the same. I can not believe it has taken so long for the White House to officially recognize this. Al Queda has been staging attacks on Kabul and Afghanistan from the tribal areas in Pakistan since the United States kicked them out of the country. There has been more and more coverage from the press of US attacks in Pakistan without any real explanation of how they are doing this without consent from Pakistan. Now that the US (and hopefully the UN) recognizes this there will be a better chance of preventing attacks.
The actual strategy is to give more money to civilian aid agencies. This should improve the quality of life for civilians in war-torn areas, which in turn will help improve relations with the US and decrease the influence of Al Queda and the Taliban. Both the Afghan and Pakistani governments approve of the plan according to an article at KeralaNext.com.
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