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2008-07-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tu3031 2008-07-28 14:05|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 For his part, Gilani said he wants the people of the United States to know that the vast majority of Pakistanis want ~~revenge against the filthy kufirs~~ peace, and want to ~~subvert~~ cooperate with the United States.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-28 14:16|| 2008-07-28 14:16|| Front Page Top

#2 From
The Messiah and The Promised Land
Margaret Bourke-White
Halfway to Freedom: A Report on the New India,Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949

In the weeks to come I was to hear the Quaid-i-Azam's thesis echoed by government officials throughout Pakistan. "Surely America will build up our army," they would say to me. "Surely America will give us loans to keep Russia from walking in." But when I asked whether there were any signs of Russian infiltration, they would reply almost sadly, as though sorry not to be able to make more of the argument. "No, Russia has shown no signs of being interested in Pakistan."

This hope of tapping the U. S. Treasury was voiced so persistently that one wondered whether the purpose was to bolster the world against Bolshevism or to bolster Pakistan's own uncertain position as a new political entity. Actually, I think, it was more nearly related to the even more significant bankruptcy of ideas in the new Muslim state -- a nation drawing its spurious warmth from the embers of an antique religious fanaticism, fanned into a new blaze.

Posted by john frum 2008-07-28 14:33|| 2008-07-28 14:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I want what Bush is drinking/smoking.
It would do wonders for the headache I have today.

Posted by 3dc 2008-07-28 16:44|| 2008-07-28 16:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Bush is an idiot. I am convinced.

He got lucky on a few items, liek judges, and having the fortitude to carry on with the surge, but for the most part he is an idiot.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-28 18:52|| 2008-07-28 18:52|| Front Page Top

#5 What leaders say in public may differ greatly from what their emissaries say in private.

Admiral Mullen has already read them the riot act. So Bush applies some healing salve to the bruised egos of the Pak elite.

Let us not forget that the man has access to all the intel on Pak perfidy. he knows exactly what the Paks are up to.

Posted by john frum 2008-07-28 19:19|| 2008-07-28 19:19|| Front Page Top

#6 OS, I agree with john frum. We cannot afford to completely alienate Pakistan - we need access in order to supply the troops in Afghanistan.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-07-28 19:51|| 2008-07-28 19:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Bush also believes it's a religion of peace.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-07-28 22:06|| 2008-07-28 22:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Or so he says, SPoD. Secretary of State Rice also publicly said today that Pakistan must now do considerably more to prevent armed incursions into Afghanistan... and the Secretary of State is very much her master's voice on such things.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-07-28 23:23|| 2008-07-28 23:23|| Front Page Top

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