By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy by Michael G. Vickers

Author:Michael G. Vickers [Vickers, Michael G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2023-06-20T00:00:00+00:00

DEALING WITH A “FRENEMY”

In January 2010, just as the U.S. force surge was getting under way in Afghanistan, Generals Kayani and Ahmad Pasha—the heads of the Army and ISI, respectively, and the real power in Pakistan—started trying to exploit President Karzai’s growing alienation from the United States.[24] “The U.S. is on its way out,” Pasha told Karzai in Kabul. “It is time to make peace with the Taliban and Pakistan.” Pasha had been making the same argument publicly in Pakistan, telling a journalist that President Obama’s surge in Afghanistan would inevitably fail. Though he denied that ISI was supporting the Taliban and Haqqanis, he told Karzai that only Pakistan could deliver them as part of a political solution to the war.

Kayani reinforced Pasha’s message when Karzai flew to Islamabad in March to follow up. “If there is to be peace, it has to come through Pakistan,” Kayani told the Afghan president. “The support of ISI is essential to any workable solution of the war. We can turn off the insurgency.” In return, Pakistan would expect Karzai “to end the Indian presence in Afghanistan,” Kayani said. Kayani also offered to train Afghan Army officers in Pakistan.

What a bunch of duplicitous shits, I thought, as I read the intelligence. I also knew, however, that the only thing worse than living with Pakistan is living without it.

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