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Atmar described a series of new efforts to curb police corruption - although he was much less forthcoming about the Karzai government's buckraking - and some of the programs, especially those that paired local police with NATO mentoring teams, seemed quite promising. Indeed, right now Afghanistan is bristling with new ideas, and the slightest sliver of hope. It is, of course, easy to be deluded by a handful of pro-Western Afghans who hazard a visit to the U.S. embassy, but there is a quality of pride and independence to these people - a consequence of their never having been successfully colonized...
...theme that defined his visit. At every stop, he delivered this message, offering collaboration and partnership instead of demands of the kind that marked the Bush era. At a press conference in Baden-Baden with Germany's Angela Merkel, a reporter asked Obama what his "grand designs" were for NATO. "I don't come bearing grand designs," he said. "I'm here to listen." (Read "Obama Promises to Listen, Not Lecture...
...practical matter, though, it was not so clear that the more collaborative strategy that Obama was peddling would pay immediate dividends. In London, European leaders balked at any specific commitment to future economic stimulus on par with American plans. In Strasbourg, NATO countries offered rhetorical support for Obama's new Afghan strategy but few combat troops to support the effort. The North Korean missile launch yielded no immediate condemnation from the U.N. Security Council, another illustration of the limits of consensus. (See more pictures of Obama in Europe...
...reporters in Islamabad on Tuesday. In its military operations, Pakistan's army has taken on al-Qaeda and militants fighting inside Pakistan but has not targeted those militants - including Mullah Muhammad Omar, the leader of the Afghan Taliban, believed to be hiding in Quetta - who attack only U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. The army says it has certain priorities and cannot risk opening up another front, given its stretched resources, by attacking those groups...
...border areas, but at the cost of inflaming the Pashtun-led insurgency on the Pakistan side. Stabilizing Afghanistan might well become crucial to preventing the far more terrifying prospect of an Islamist takeover in Pakistan. Says U.S. Army Brigadier General John Nicholson Jr., who commands U.S. and NATO troops in southern Afghanistan: "If the Pashtun population of Pakistan sees a moderate, Islamic and Pashtun-led government in Afghanistan, well, it's hard to argue with. So we have potentially a greater impact in Pakistan with success in the east." (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...