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Does it anger you that the Obama Administration is promoting a bill to pay Pakistanis to renounce insurgency ?
Should we be paying these people ? Seriously ? , How trustworthy are they ?
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October 28, 2009 10:25 AM
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That's not how it is set up and your question is very loaded. Here is what the BBC reports about the program which was just included in a Congressional bill:
"The Commander's Emergency Response Programme, or Cerp, was set up to give the US military the means to clear roads, dig wells and provide other urgent humanitarian assistance to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, the BBC's Richard Lister in Washington says.
US soldiers in Afghanistan (file)
Foreign forces in Afghanistan are sustaining heavier casualties
But in Iraq, the money can also be given to insurgents provided they switch sides.
Backers of the Cerp scheme say it enabled some 90,000 formerly hostile Iraqis to form local militias and protect their towns from militants, our correspondent says.
He adds that now the same authority is being given to US commanders in Afghanistan.
A clause in the annual defence appropriations bill says they can use the money to support the "re-integration into Afghan society" of those who have renounced violence against the Afghan government. "
As described this program makes sense. You can't just tell someone to stop fighting. You have to get them reestablished in peaceful occupations. The program is to continue to be done by the local military commanders at their discretion. This seems to be working in Iraq so it should be tried in Afghanistan too. It has nothing to do with trusting anyone, it is a matter of making peace practical in a war ravaged region.
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"The Commander's Emergency Response Programme, or Cerp, was set up to give the US military the means to clear roads, dig wells and provide other urgent humanitarian assistance to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, the BBC's Richard Lister in Washington says.
US soldiers in Afghanistan (file)
Foreign forces in Afghanistan are sustaining heavier casualties
But in Iraq, the money can also be given to insurgents provided they switch sides.
Backers of the Cerp scheme say it enabled some 90,000 formerly hostile Iraqis to form local militias and protect their towns from militants, our correspondent says.
He adds that now the same authority is being given to US commanders in Afghanistan.
A clause in the annual defence appropriations bill says they can use the money to support the "re-integration into Afghan society" of those who have renounced violence against the Afghan government. "
As described this program makes sense. You can't just tell someone to stop fighting. You have to get them reestablished in peaceful occupations. The program is to continue to be done by the local military commanders at their discretion. This seems to be working in Iraq so it should be tried in Afghanistan too. It has nothing to do with trusting anyone, it is a matter of making peace practical in a war ravaged region.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8329129.stm
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