Here's an inconvenient truth for those conservatives demanding robust U.S. action against Pakistan. The Paks' double-dealing -- acting as a U.S. ally in the War with Jihad while simultaneously harboring Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, the governing shura (council) of the Afghanistan Taliban in Quetta and thousands of individual Talibs -- is indeed infuriating. It's also very much in Pakistan's interest.
Pakistan happens to live in a very tough neighborhood. Duplicity is the only way it survives: India to the east of them, Iran to the west of them, China and Russia to the north of them. And an angry America all over them.
Geography -- not the inconvenient truth, it's coming in a minute -- hasn't come up much in all the huffing-and-puffing on the blogs and the cable channels. But neither has the inconvenient truth.
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Duplicity is the only way it survives: India to the east of them
How much of a threat would India really be if the Pakistainis stopped being the murderous and annoying little shits that they are? Stunts like Mumbai do not make for happy neighbors.
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The was an article yesterday indicating that China is as worried about Pakistan's self-destructive habits as we are.
It seems that the Chinese are willing to say sweet nothings to the PAks and take any gifts the Paks give them, but they are scared stiff that they may be in the passenger's seat when the Paks drive over the cliff.
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they are scared stiff that they may be in the passenger's seat when the Paks drive over the cliff. I doubt the rulers of China are scared that easily, their problem is keeping their people employed & not rioting. China's legitimate worry about Pakistain is whether or not China is downwind should the nukes fly.
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China should be worried. If Pak Jihadists get their hands on a nuclear armed missile in the 2,000 kilometer range, where are they going to fire it and not kill a lot of muslims?
James Hansen,who runs NASAs Goddard Institute, is currently backing a lawsuit against the administration for failing to address global warming and is using teenagers to do it.
The federal government has violated its legal obligation to protect the atmosphere as a resource that belongs to everyone, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court last week.
Five of the plaintiffs are teenagers, who have a profound interest in ensuring our climate remains stable enough to ensure their right to a livable future, according to the suit filed May 4, which names a number of federal officials from Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, to Robert Gates of the Defense Department as defendants.
The suit cites climate calculations, and is supported by NASA climate scientist James Hansen, who has a history of speaking out forcefully on the hazards of human-caused global warming. Hansen told LiveScience he had been interested in going to court over the topic in recent years.
The angle to this nonsense is that because Obama can no longer deliver the goods, the radicals want to use the courts to tyrannically impose what representative government wont. Helped, of course, by the administration putting up little or no defense against their lawsuits.
Thats also why want courts to grant nature human rights.
That would allow activists to flood courts with actions demanding that judges impose policies that legislators refuse to pass, an anti-democratic impulse that would put public policy in the hands of star chamber "environment courts" rather than elected representatives of the people.
And that way, they wouldnt have to borrow teenagers as plaintiffs, but instead adopt rocks, plants, and rivers.
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Were I the judge sitting this case, my first question to the youths involved would be, "What have you done to reduce your footprint? How many trees have you planted, have you given up gasoline-powered transportation, significantly reduced your home's energy use, gone locavore, recycled, built a compost heap..." If the complainant has not taken steps to significantly reduce his own impact, he has no right to seek the court's authority to compel others to do so.
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Cutting CO2 emissions might minize anthropogenic changes in earth's climate but there's no way it could 'stabilize' the climate which has been changing for over 4 billion years.
The climate might change in a different way without human CO2 emissions, but change it will.
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