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2007-09-16 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2007-09-16 14:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I have said for a long time Perv needs these extremist both for foreign policy but also re getting funds from the west.If these militants disappear the West and especially USA would not need Perv.He knows that and we are starting to realise this at last!!!!

Posted by paul 2007-09-16 14:36|| 2007-09-16 14:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Pakistans security services maintain these connections less out of ideological sympathy and more out of strategic calculation: as a hedge against abandonment by other allies especially the United States.

Which makes it especially gratifying to see the terroriststrue to formturn upon the Pakistani officials who spawned them.

Markey, therefore, suggests that if the US were to strengthen its ties to the Pakistani military and commit to a long-term partnership, it would reassure the government/military that they would have no need of maintaining links to militant groups.

This sort of fatuous reasoning needs to be slapped out Markey's head. Strengthened "ties to the Pakistani military" will result in even more funding and weapons being diverted into terrorist hands. What is it that these policy wonks don't get about Pakistan's permanent commitment to global jihad? The politicians and terrorists are inseparably conjoined by their violent quest for Islamic "purity". Only one of two things will ever change this situation: Nuclear annihilation or a complete dismantling and redistribution of the Pakistani nation amongst its neighbors. So long as Pakistan exists as an independent entity, it will continue to serve as this world's terror-central.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-16 14:49|| 2007-09-16 14:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Pakistan elites - including clerics - take hundreds of millions of dollars from the heroin trade. Border towns in Balochistan and Northwest Frontier Province, run heroin production factores 24-7-365. If Mushy makes cosmetic moves against Taliban/al-Qaeda, while his own political party (Pakistan Muslim League, Qaid-i-Azam, runs Balochistan with the MMA, then allowing the heroin trade to operate freely gives his putschists 2 sources of unearned income.

Posted by McZoid 2007-09-16 17:17|| 2007-09-16 17:17|| Front Page Top

#4 What is it that these policy wonks don't get
What is it that these policy wonks don't admit, is that they & their theories, and all their activities is meaningless---and always were.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-09-16 19:58|| 2007-09-16 19:58|| Front Page Top

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