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2006-01-22 India-Pakistan

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Posted by ed 2006-01-22 13:44|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article implies that an Islamic leader who is "into fundamentalism" is somehow safer than one who isn't. Not so -- every Muslim (no matter how fundamentalist) is an apostate (therefore deserving of the death penalty) to some other Muslims. It all depends on who wants to grasp for power.

Posted by Whutch Threth6418 2006-01-22 13:55|| 2006-01-22 13:55|| Front Page Top

#2 the mere fact that ISI and MMA support terrorists means we should worry about blowback? What a handwringing load of crap. I expect better from Strategypage. We need to support Perv, and taking out foreigners, welcomed among tribesmen who are clearly not Perv supporters, is an illumination on the ISI/MMA/tribal links to terrorists that they can't stand. Keep the spotlight (or UAV infrared...heh heh) on!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-22 14:14|| 2006-01-22 14:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Frank, It not the US that worries about it. It's Musharraf and the Pakis who are willing to cooperate with us. The Pakis gov has already said the US must get approval from them before any more strikes. Of course that is for the consumption of the peasants since the Pakistanis were informed before the Damadola hit.

Instead of worrying about aggrieved Pakistani sensitivities, I think the US should assassinate the Pakistani islamist and jihadist leaders. When they should Deat to Infidels, Deat to America, they should be the first to pay with the their lives.

Posted by ed 2006-01-22 14:59|| 2006-01-22 14:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Deat = Death

Posted by ed 2006-01-22 15:00|| 2006-01-22 15:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Perv is the real fool here. Instead of trying to triangulate his fundie enemies, he should be slowly and methodically eliminating them.

First he needs a brigade equivalent of a death squad, that is totally loyal and secular, and then he needs to scheme and execute a program of extermination scheduled for many years. Start with the most radical, disloyal and dangerous, and work their way to the least troublesome.

His assassins need to use tools that make death look natural or accidental. No anger here, just cold-blooded killing. There are many readily available poisons and pathogens that wouldn't raise suspicions outside of a top laboratory in the US.

If done properly, hundreds could be exterminated every year. And since there is a limited supply of really dangerous villains, in a decade Pakistan would be as peaceful as all get out.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-01-22 15:07|| 2006-01-22 15:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Ed - I'm OK with that. I get pissed at the pussyfooting around the seething and outrage of those who are avowedly our enemies. If your enemies aren't pissed, you're not doing your job. A bunch of tribal rustics are handling the Pak forces deployed? Let the clusterbombs fall. Who's to say who's innocent when an entire tribal area is your enemy?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-22 15:41|| 2006-01-22 15:41|| Front Page Top

#7 The one thing that all Muslims understand, and that we've failed to articulate, is raw power. We need to show Waziristan that WE are the most powerful, meanest, nastiest, brutish, hellish power on the face of the planet. We need to schedule some 3000 aircraft over Waziristan within a 24-hour period, each with a maximum load of iron bombs, and show them what POWER is. The friends of my enemies is my enemy. We need to show them that if they want to make nice with Taliban, we'll make nasty to them, in a way they cannot refute. Screw "world opinion". It's time to wage WAR, not an externally-controlled parlor game. If "Europe" doesn't like it, we can follow up with a strike on Brussels. I think they'll get the message THEN.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-01-22 16:27|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-22 16:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Actually Old Patriot, Europe would do in your scenario what they have always done : Condemn us in public, while kissing us in private afterwards. Look how much Europe screamed about the Israelis taking out Saddam's nuclear plant in the 1980s, and how much has come out recently about how glad they were that the Israelis did their thing.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-01-22 17:53|| 2006-01-22 17:53|| Front Page Top

#9 perhaps we need to tell them to save both public and private motions. They are irrelevant at best when it comes to OUR national security, including defending the only democracy in the ME with a track record (Iraq may be #2). Europe needs to learn their place. Without our overwhelmingly (cost/men/materials) expensive shield they'd have been Soviet. Now, they bite that hand. F*&k them.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-22 18:07|| 2006-01-22 18:07|| Front Page Top

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