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2006-05-02 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2006-05-02 17:45|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 an "insurgency" manufactured whole cloth across the border in Pakistan a US ally. The evidence of this connection is abundant: Taliban leaders strut openly around Quetta, Pakistan, where they are provided with offices and government-issued weapons authorization cards; Pakistani army officers are detailed to Taliban training camps; and Pakistani border guards constantly wave self-proclaimed Taliban through checkpoints into Afghanistan.

Typcal Pak behavior .. this is what they have done wrt India since the early 1980s, first with 'Khalastani' terrorists then with 'Kashmiri' ones.

However the US is not India.. it does not have to accept this situation. The US can inflict serious pain on Pakistan, nation ending pain.

Posted by john 2006-05-02 17:58|| 2006-05-02 17:58|| Front Page Top

#2 And it begins by (finally) saying "No" and publicly dissing them for the two-faced terror-enablers they are. The shine is off and there is much more to follow. The Taliban being listed (or not) is, in every substantive respect, irrelevant. None of the "organizations" issue ID cards, so who really cares? Irrelevant "experts" such as the author and that idiot Langdon (Langton, LOL) and other worthless quibblers.

Dead Taliban are substance. Dead ISI would be even better. Expect hot pursuit to gain favor and become standard ROE. Expect the usual denials and protests. Now there's a "Who cares?" I can get behind.

Posted by Whamp Pholuth6661 2006-05-02 18:19|| 2006-05-02 18:19|| Front Page Top

#3 "Even as the Taliban attacks US, Canadian, and British forces, organization is left off terrorist list in 'political' decision."

The Taliban "provided safe haven for Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

"In order to gain a broad base of support, Afghan President Karzai has reached out to Pashtuns, many of whom were members of the Taliban..."

This is what a sellout of 3000 Americans' deaths smells like. How "sophisticated".

Posted by Jules 2006-05-02 19:06|| 2006-05-02 19:06|| Front Page Top

#4 This is what a sellout of 3000 Americans' deaths smells like. How "sophisticated".

That's Foggy Bottom!

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-05-02 19:13|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-05-02 19:13|| Front Page Top

#5 How do organizations like the State Department get filled with so many islamophiles?

Posted by john 2006-05-02 19:23|| 2006-05-02 19:23|| Front Page Top

#6 The US State Dept steeped in "broke-back" chronyism. Has been for years and years. That's why General Powell had such a difficult time up there. US State and CIA have been in a neck and neck dead heat in the race to mediocrity and irrelevance for decades.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-02 19:33|| 2006-05-02 19:33|| Front Page Top

#7 "Chayes also writes that the US military obsession with Al Qaeda and "an Osama bin Laden-style, ideological confrontation" have acted like a set of blinders to the real problem with the Taliban, and that this has greatly disillusioned the average Afghan.

I no longer give a flying shit what the average afghan thinks.
Apparently we cannot find the enemy, cannot even NAME them,
Hard News- Afghanistan is a pile of crap where you can't do ANYTHING. No industry can be profiably pursued there .
Drugs, Rugs, and thugs have been the name of the game since the Time of MArco Polo.
If These nations cannot agree that the TALIBAN is part of the enemy..........

Posted by jim#6 2006-05-02 19:42|| 2006-05-02 19:42|| Front Page Top

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