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2011-06-29 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 ? The Afghan Taliban have never attacked any American or European asset outside Afghanistan. BS! They provided critical resources and safe havens enabling the 9/11 attack. They bear the same level of responsibility as the Mo Atta.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-29 00:08|| 2011-06-29 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 "Felt betrayed ... ... after the release of Afghanistan from the Soviet bear hug" > OOOOOOOOOOOOO, SO CLOSE BUT YET SO FAR.

No, it started long before the Soviets even invaded Afghanistan, at least for the older or top leaders like Osama.

NO ROASTED CAMEL FOR YOU FOR DINNER TONITE, YOUNG MAN!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-06-29 02:18|| 2011-06-29 02:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh lord. What a load of propaganda. In summary, Al Qaeda fading, Afghan Taliban good, Pak Taliban bad, but secretly a tool of the nefarious Americans who want to replace the government and army with ignorant, ill-mannered taqfiri terrorists for inexplicable reasons of their own, Hidden canals, forsooth!

Susan, fetch your steno pad -- I feel a best-selling novel coming on.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-06-29 09:20|| 2011-06-29 09:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I'll post it again... the 4th way:

The Fourth Way is Accountability and it is simple enough. Stop arguing over who will rule in which Muslim country. That is a decision that only the inhabitants of that country can make. And they wont make it through elections, so much as through dealmaking among their oligarchy, tribal leaders and occasional outbursts of armed force. It would take a massive project of decades to have any hope of changing that. But we dont need to. What we need to do is make very clear the consequences of attacking us to whoever is in charge.

Rather than trying to shape their behavior by shaping their political leadership, we can use a much more blunt instrument to unselectively shape all their leaders. A blunt instrument does not mean reconstruction. It doesnt mean Marines ferrying electrical generators. It doesnt mean nation building. It means that we will inflict massive devastation on any country that aids terrorists who attack us. If they insist on using medieval beliefs to murder us, we will bomb government buildings, roads, factories and power plants to reduce them back to a medieval state. We will not impose sanctions on them, we will simply take control of their natural resources and remove the native population from the area, as compensation for the expenses of the war.

Accountability means no more aid to tyrants or terrorists, and no grand democracy projects either. It means that we stop trying to pick a side, and just make it clear what happens when our side gets hurt. We gain energy independence and never look back. And when weve done that, the Muslim world will no longer be able to play America against Russia, against Asia and Europe. Instead it will suddenly find itself stuck with a predatory Russia looking for an energy monopoly, a booming China expanding into their part of the world, and no Pax Americana to protect them from either one.

America has provided the stability that kept many Muslim countries from imploding. It has protected others directly and indirectly from being conquered more times than anyone realizes. All the treachery and terrorism that has been carried out, has been done under an American umbrella. Now is the time to furl up the umbrella, and let the rain fall where it may.

It will be a cold day indeed, when Russia and China realize that they can do what they like in the Muslim world, without the US to stop them. And a colder day still, when European countries realize that there is nothing standing the way of deporting their insurgent Muslim populations, because the US will not lift a finger to protect them, as it did in Yugoslavia. That is accountability. And in both its active and passive forms it will exact a high price from the enemy, and none from us. To employ it, we must be prepared to use massive force casually without considering any collateral damage. We must achieve energy independence at any cost. And we must be prepared to realize that everything else we have tried has failed. Only by disengaging from the Muslim world, can we ever be free of it.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25659

Posted by Mikey Hunt 2011-06-29 13:35|| 2011-06-29 13:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmmmmm. I've got to go with T.W. on this.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-06-29 15:48|| 2011-06-29 15:48|| Front Page Top

#6 At some point we need to say that this or that country is medieval and then destroy every airfield and mostly cut them off from the world.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-06-29 20:47|| 2011-06-29 20:47|| Front Page Top

#7 #6, makes sense, but the rest of the world would have to support that - it used to be called containment. I think there are too many players in the world for that to work. China has been getting away with sponsoring North Korea's shenanigans for over half a century now.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-29 22:46|| 2011-06-29 22:46|| Front Page Top

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