IMPERIALISMWATCH-Influential Think Tank Urges Long-Term Commitment http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55789

With public and Congressional debate hotting up over post-bin Laden U.S. policy in South Asia, a think tank with close ties to the administration of President Barack Obama is calling for a strategy that will keep Washington deeply engaged in the region for a long time to come.In a 40-page report released here Wednesday, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) said Washington should negotiate a long-term strategic partnership agreement with Afghanistan that would keep 25,000 to 35,000 U.S. troops

in that country well beyond the 2014 date which the U.S. and its allies have set for withdrawal. It also calls for a "more nuanced" policy towards Pakistan designed to strengthen those state actors that co-operate with U.S. security interests there and punish those that do not, notably military and intelligence officials or sectors suspected of supporting or otherwise co-operating with terrorist groups, notably Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba

(LeT, and the Pakistani Taliban, Tehrik-i-Taliban."As part of a differentiated approach toward Pakistan, the United States should explore using targeted financial pressure against individuals and organizations in Pakistan with links to trans- national terrorism and insurgency in the region," the report said.Those interests, according to the report, which was co-written by the former NATO commander in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. David Barno (ret.) and a prominent COIN specialist, Andrew Exum, include, above all, "

[Interesting first of all ,ALQAEDA ISA CIA CREATION AND ANY GROUP OPERATING UNDER THAT EXTENSION IS ALREADY TIED TO US INTELLIGENCE,CIA ALSO WORKS WITH LET GROUP(SEE THE FRAUDULENT FORCES AT WORK?),NOW,WHO IS THIS THINK TANK?Center for a New American Security - SourceWatch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_a_New_American_Security

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[IN OTHER WORDS,THSOE PROMOTING PROLONGED OCCUPATION AND NEOCOLONIALISM OF REGION ARE?THE USUAL GLOBALIST,MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX,AND  CORPORATE FINANCIAL INTERESTS,NOT TO MENTION NEOCON AND ZIONIST ZEALOTS...