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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (34429)	7/27/2010 6:55:21 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

Re: "The action in Afghistan is really an action against a minority of Afghanis and a majority of Pakistanis." I suppose you could put it that way. The Pastun tribes are the largest ethnic group in BOTH countries (but not a majority). They make up the heart of the Taliban movement. And they are the largest 'irredentist movement' (ethnic movement that who's people are divided by political/national boundaries and who do not have a country of their own) remaining in the world after the Kurds. I've often thought that if the Pastuns in both countries ever managed to unite and form a new nation (after civil wars in both Pakistan and Afghanistan broke those countries up) it might realign things there into more rational and sustainable borders. (Of course Pakistan would be no more....)