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2011-08-07 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 Don't be a'fergettin that MALAYSIA-INDONESIA'S JIHADISTS ARE RUMBLING.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-07 06:48|| 2011-08-07 06:48|| Front Page Top

#2 "...The issue being debated, on the other hand, is fundamental and requires a fresh mandate..."

I can't figure out what the issue is.

Posted by Lord Garth 2011-08-07 08:48|| 2011-08-07 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 I assumed from the headline this was about Jurassic Jimmy Carter.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-07 09:21|| 2011-08-07 09:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Dinosaurs were brainless reptiles. Their present-day human counterparts are (just) brainy enough to realise that they must not defy the legal writ

Good candidate for snark o' the day.

Posted by lotp 2011-08-07 09:30|| 2011-08-07 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Pakistani writing: All of the ponderousness of English and none of its wit.

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-07 10:51|| 2011-08-07 10:51|| Front Page Top

#6 To be fair to the author, he (and presumably it is a 'he') writes in a charged environment where issues of power and physical safety abound. I've encountered this allusive style among well-educated Pakistani scientists and engineers who've lived and worked in the West for decades. The habit of speaking indirectly goes deep, it would appear.

Questions of constitutional law vs. judicial high handedness vs. military power vs. corruption have plagued Pakistan for a long time. They've become quite urgent due to events in the last few years, as the Rantburg archive demonstrates.

The death of bin Laden forced a crisis in the country since it directly abrogated the military's public authority and ISI's private power. This is a country in which candidates for high office have a distressingly high risk of assasination for broaching such issues, so it's perhaps understandable that those who raise them do so with a lot of insinuation and little direct speech.

Posted by lotp 2011-08-07 11:01|| 2011-08-07 11:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Agreed LOTP. But we can no longer afford to spoon feed these fuck-ups. Time to knock the dust off our feet and pray the Indians can handle 2 problems.

Get out inside the year. Evacuate everything we can, destroy the rest. Give US interests time to remove assets, but at some point it's all over. Break diplomatic relations and embargo, if necessary blockade. If it's good enough for Cuba it's good enough for Pakistan.

Posted by S 2011-08-07 12:41|| 2011-08-07 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 To be fair to the author, he (and presumably it is a 'he') writes in a charged environment where issues of power and physical safety abound.

Still, it would be useful if a few of them studied Jonathan Swift.

If it's good enough for Cuba it's good enough for Pakistan.

Cuba doesn't have nukes.

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-07 14:04|| 2011-08-07 14:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Cuba doesn't have nukes.

Almost did.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-08-07 16:59|| 2011-08-07 16:59|| Front Page Top

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