policy for Afghanistan and Pakistan on Ma. President Barack Obama reiterated this fact in his speech outlining the new U.S. From the beginning, the United States has had no ambition to dominate or subjugate the Afghan people, or to stay in Afghanistan once the threat posed by al-Qa`ida and the Afghan Taliban is defeated. goal, endorsed by the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), was self-defense against a government that had allowed its territory to be used for an act of war against another state. The United States intervened in Afghanistan in 2001 on the side of the Northern Alliance to topple the Taliban Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan only after the country had been used as a base for the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The first and perhaps most critical difference between the two wars is over goals and objectives.
This article will address those differences, and will also assess how Pakistan’s role is impacting the United States’ possibilities for success today. Pakistan’s role as a safe haven is remarkably consistent in both conflicts, but focusing exclusively on that similarity misses the fundamental differences between the two wars. Many suggest that the outcome will be the same for the United States as it was for the Soviet Union-ultimate defeat at the hands of the insurgency. Today, the United States is fighting a Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan that operates from a safe haven in Pakistan. In the 1980s, the Central Intelligence Agency, working from a safe haven in Pakistan, engineered the largest covert operation in its history to help defeat the Soviet 40 th Red Army in Afghanistan. A country rarely fights the same war twice in one generation, especially from opposite sides.
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