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| Pakistani Official: Taliban Can Outwait the West |
| 2011-01-14 |
| The Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva says most Pashtuns in Afghanistan, whether they are Taliban or not, see the United States and NATO as a presence of occupation. He says the Taliban, who are indigenous to Afghanistan, are in a good position to come out on top because it can outwait "the enemy." They certainly intend to out-wait Obama. Whether they can out-wait President Palin is another matter... Pakistani Ambassador, Zamir Akram, says after nearly 10 years of war, promises of economic development have not been fulfilled and Afghan Pashtuns are disillusioned. As a consequence, he says Afghans look at the United States and NATO as occupying powers. And, this he says feeds into the kind of propaganda the Taliban are eager to promote. He says the use of force is only one element in a larger political strategy needed to oust or contain the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan. What do you want to bet that a large part of his proposed comprehensive strategy will include money? |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #9 ION NEWS KERALA > KP CHIEF MINISTER WARNS THAT AN "UNDECLARED THIRD WORLD WAR" [is] UNDERWAY IN REGION. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-14 22:42 |
| #8 Keep thinking that way. Waiting out the U.S. worked great for those Imperial Japanese holdouts too. |
| Posted by: rammer 2011-01-14 22:26 |
| #7 they probably can outwait the US. I mean what the hell else have they been doing for 10,000 years besides sitting on their hands waiting for someone too do something for them or barely surviving? |
| Posted by: chris 2011-01-14 20:25 |
| #6 The tactic, and I believe there was one, for Perv to set up a unified Pakistan under a central government, instead of a bunch of contentious enclaves, showed a lot of promise early on; but Pakistan is just not ready for nationhood yet. In short, a whole lot of violent people have to be put down, and put down so hard that they give up, and stop fighting. How many? Perhaps 10 million. What brought it up short was when Perv threw out the corrupt supreme court leaders, and all the radical lawyers, those now throwing rose petals at the governor's assassins, broke his will and he reinstated them. Then what stopped it cold was the attack on the red mosque. While it was successful, it let all the other factions know that their time was limited, unless they could drive Perv out and end the momentum to unification. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-14 19:42 |
| #5 They have an endless supply of morons looking for virgins. Sure, Ebbang Uluque6305, but it's so much more fun being a jihadi if one doesn't get killed on the way to the battlefield without even so much as wounding a single infidel, or if the safehouse is hit by a missile in the night, or if management bugs out, leaving the rearguard morons to face our guys. Especially when the bugged-out management get hit by a missile in the night, too. And apparently the Taliban have been suffering from a cash shortage, which means jihadi pay packets have been a bit lighter than promised. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-01-14 18:32 |
| #4 They have an endless supply of morons looking for virgins. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-01-14 18:22 |
| #3 That outwaiting is getting expensive for the Taliban, according to Strategy Page analyses (well worth reading, and blessedly brief): Patterns of Terrorism Deaths in Southeast Asia: Overall [in Pakistan], terrorist related deaths declined 37 percent from 2009 to 2010. There were 11,704 terrorism related deaths in 2009, versus 7,435 last year, and in both years, terrorists were about 70 percent of the dead, with about ten percent of the dead security forces and 20 percent civilians. [similar pattern and numbers in Afghanistan] The Tradition Continues (Pushtunistan): Last year this war left about 15,000 dead. Over 90 percent of those killed were Pushtun. Over 10,000 were the Taliban and terrorist fighters determined to drive infidels (non-Moslems) out of the area and establish an Islamic state (under Pushtun control). Most of the other 5,000 dead were civilians, most of them killed by the Taliban. ...No one expects the Pushtuns to win this war, they never do. That's why there have been so few Pushtun kingdoms in the region, much less a modern "Pushtunstan." |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-01-14 18:15 |
| #2 Hey, they got contenders in the Norks and the Paleos in making agreements and not abiding by them. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-01-14 18:13 |
| #1 We should ALL by know which side the Paks are on whilst still collecting handouts from the West! Name me a more two faced backstabbing country than Pakistan? |
| Posted by: Paul D 2011-01-14 16:47 |