perseus
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Afghanistan is merely a battleground, not a base for the enemy, so how can the Taliban controlled areas be dealt with? Will Pakistan need to be invaded or merely economically pressured into fighting them?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8013677.stm
She said extremists were being allowed to control territory such as the Swat Valley, in north-western Pakistan. Giving evidence in Washington to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mrs Clinton said the situation in Pakistan "poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world"......
"I think the Pakistani government is basically abdicating to the Taleban and the extremists," she said. She called on the Pakistani people to speak out "forcefully" against their government's policy, in what the BBC's Richard Lister in Washington called an unusual move.
The government's policy was conceding "more and more territory to the insurgents , to the Taleban, to al-Qaeda, to the allies that are in this terrorist syndicate", Mrs Clinton said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8013677.stm