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WASHINGTON (AP) - Pakistan's decision to relocate thousands of troops on the border with India having to remove them from the border with Afghanistan, threatening the goal of the United States to rely on its Southeast Asian ally in its global fight against terrorism .

The campaign of President-elect Barack Obama promised to give new impetus to the stalled war in Afghanistan. That would be the first casualty as a result of action by Pakistan. The second would be low thwart U.S. efforts to destroy al-Qaida.

The sudden change in the face of Pakistan is recorded in the midst of a transition between two governments, and for Obama represents a dangerous escalation of tension that his predecessor had been unable to avoid.

As we discovered, President George W. Bush, the U.S. can not wage this war on their own. Nor can it persuade its allies to put aside their own agendas and internal policies.

According to experts, to win in Afghanistan, not only to conserve the land, the United States and its allies must seal the bastions of militia along the border with Pakistan. The United States can not do it without the help of Pakistan, and Pakistani and Afghan militia are well aware.

Bush administration officials have frequently traveled to New Delhi and Islamabad after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, praying on both sides that the well-founded suspicion that the militiamen left Pakistan should not become an excuse for a new conflict . India and Pakistan have fought three wars and now have atomic weapons.

If Pakistan takes its forces from the border with Afghanistan could show that the militias can easily exploit the old rivalry with India.

"We hope that both sides refrain from taking actions that unnecessarily increase tensions in the already tense moments," he said on Friday the White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe.

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the armed forces of the United States, traveled to Islamabad in recent days, noting with approval at the beginning of the month that neither of the two sides had planned a military response to the bombings in Mumbai.

Mullen has focused on Pakistan. He has visited the Islamic country for more than half a dozen times in the turbulent years after the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Apparently Mullen has established good ties with the army chief of Pakistan, and noted that the Islamic insurgency in Pakistan and terrorism could destroy the country unless its institutions choose to confront it.