The Norwegians see Hamid Karzai, the Pashtune, as a bridge between enemies, a patient man able to wait and wait again. The more time won, without brutality, without killings, the better chance for peace and the beginning of the rebuilding of Afghanistan.

Statoil and maybe Aker-Kvaerner present solutions mutually beneficent to the Afghans and Norwegians. 

Q: What do the Afghans have? 
A: Territory for pipelines, minerals and a geopolitical space for intelligence in the region.

Q: What do the Norwegians have? 

A: Constructive Know How. Especially in the oil business!

Real peace keeping is beneficent for all players. Trade and exchange of information is essential for a lasting peace.

Norway have showed real will to create peace, since the introduction of the Nobel Peace Price one hundred years ago and is still working in this tradition - as a member of NATO and UN.

The peace keeping forces of Norway are on wings in Afghanistan and maybe soon in Turkey.

To win peace there are a lot of force needed!

Whatever the words of pacifist Johan Galtung - predicting the collapse of the US- Empire within 20 years - in a wave of global terrorism following the second strike against IRAQ.

               Johan Galtung.
                  Pidture: Sampled

The Norwegians are active in Sri Lanka, in Palestine, in Afghanistan and, were active, for a while, i Tjetjenia, and are willing to go to Nepal, some of them as private citizens and others as bold diplomats and envoys of the Norwegian Parliament.

In this context it would be a blessing for the world if Kristin Krohn Devold became the head of NATO. 
Norway is lucky enough just to leave the UN security counsel, with It´s difficult decisions ahead, and Norway express a lot of constructive charm at the moment.
With  Kristin Krohn Devold as Nato Leader the constructive forces  might bloom and alleviate the burdens on the war thorn Afghan tribes, Palestinians and other small peoples all over the world and create some security!
The new type of war - the asymmetrical war - is a war between small etnic groups of people (Alquaida, Tjetjenians, Armenians, Kurds, Jews, Palestinians, Tibetans etc) and big states (USA, China, Russia, Turkey etc) - and the Norwegian defense minister Krohn Devold might understand this very well.

To understand this is the only way to minimize the risk of exploding terrorism, and a completely different path, compared to that of the Norwegian allied USA.

Norway is in a unique posistion between the powers of the brand new world and might be able to bridge the gaps and, at least for a while, hold the shaking and cracking world together.

                       Norwegian Defense Minister 
                           Kristin Krohn Devold. Picture: sampled.          

Tomas Brusell
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