Jens Stoltenberg Quotes
There are many difficult challenges in Afghanistan. And we still have Taliban. We still have terrorist organizations there, and we will see violence and we will see conflict there also in the coming years,.
Stoltenberg, Jens. "Press Conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg." NATO, 13 May 2015.
The military attack on the Taliban was a great success and the regime was ousted very rapidly. Once the regime was displaced, however, the military was faced with an extremely decentralized country with sporadic resistance from Taliban sympathizers and with the tough task of rebuilding the dilapidated country.
The Pakistani Government at the time and for most of the history of that nation did not have much control over the military, and regardless of what agreements the civilian government might have made, the military did not wanted to curry favor with as many Islamic radical terrorist groups as possible even though they even killed Muslims of Pakistan. They would not send the military into Northern Pakistan (Waziristan) to eliminate the Taliban sanctuaries or offend their tribal "hosts" as they were so paranoid about India that they wanted the terrorists as allies.
He was retired when he appeared. It was shortly after the September 11 attack and the Taliban Government of Afghanistan was giving sanctuary to Al Qaida and bin Laden. The President had given them an ultimatum to turn them over.
The government of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was totally corrupt and preyed on the Afghan people. See {629318}. The United States had committed to the turnover at the end of 2013 the responsibility for maintaining the security of Afghanistan to the Afghan military and police forces who were being trained by the Americans.
Jens Stoltenberg is a Norwegian politician who has served as the 13th Secretary General of NATO since 2014. A member of the Labour Party, he previously served as Prime Minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and again from 2005 until 2013.
