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2008-03-28 India-Pakistan

A chill ushers in new diplomatic order in Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2008-03-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 What does the administration have to show for shoveling at least $10 billion into Pakistan and rescuing their economy from collapse? Even when it became evident the Pakistanis the knew about the Sept 11 attacks and were financiers of it. Should have let India occupy it in 2002 and converted by the sword those savages to Hinduism.

Posted by ed 2008-03-28 01:37|| 2008-03-28 01:37|| Front Page Top

#2 We won't be getting much diplomatically from Pakistain, so we better be on a strong military footing with regard to any crap coming out of there.

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-03-28 08:31|| 2008-03-28 08:31|| Front Page Top

#3 What does the administration have to show for shoveling at least $10 billion into Pakistan and rescuing their economy from collapse?

I suspect we're about to find out. And we'll wish we could spend another $10 billion to have postponed it another 8 years.

Even when it became evident the Pakistanis the knew about the Sept 11 attacks and were financiers of it. Should have let India occupy it in 2002 and converted by the sword those savages to Hinduism.

Patience.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-28 08:34|| 2008-03-28 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Indian methods will be far more sophisticated.

There will be no forcible conversion.

There are after all more Muslims in India than in Pakistan.

Consider that in the 1930's the father of Pakistan, MA Jinnah could not even get a hotel room in the NWFP. All the Pasthuns and Balochis... the same folk running around and blowing things up today, rejected him, the Muslim league and Pakistan. They elected a Congress party local government.

They were following Abdul Gaffar Khan, the so called "Frontier Gandhi" who had convinced them to forsake violence and use non-violent measures to throw out the British.

Imagine that.. non-violent Pahtuns... the same Taliban folk we see today sawing off heads...

Today the ANP, the political party founded by Abdul Gaffar Khan and now led by his grandson, runs the NWFP.

Abdul Gaffar Khan is the guy on the left.

Posted by john frum 2008-03-28 14:55|| 2008-03-28 14:55|| Front Page Top

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