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2009-04-09 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2009-04-09 08:47|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Fuck them. Let it collapse, bulldoze it over, and start again.

Posted by PartJew 2009-04-09 09:05|| 2009-04-09 09:05|| Front Page Top

#2 How about for every insult, we cut $1billion in aid, then we'll save a bunch.

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Omavising9607 2009-04-09 10:26|| 2009-04-09 10:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Also, not only do they have the most corrupt leader in their history who was convicted and sentences to 11 years, he's now looting the highway toll which go directly into his personal swiss account based on what I've been hearing. I don't trust them with no strings attached with our billions and they don't seem to be able to give a straight answer for sh*t.

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Omavising9607 2009-04-09 10:33|| 2009-04-09 10:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Just a thourght-Why should pakistan give up Taleban,Al Qaeda etc when we fund them billions to fight them???????

If Taleban/Al Q were destroyed/disbanded how would Pakistan get money from the west????

Bottom line-They prosper on terrorism to keep the country afloat!!!!.

Posted by Paul2 2009-04-09 11:17|| 2009-04-09 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 There only profitable export is terrorism!!!

Posted by Paul2 2009-04-09 11:19|| 2009-04-09 11:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Halfway to Freedom: A Report on the New India,Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949 - By Margaret Bourke-White

"America needs Pakistan more than Pakistan needs America," was Jinnah's reply. "Pakistan is the pivot of the world, as we are placed" -- he revolved his long forefinger in bony circles -- "the frontier on which the future position of the world revolves." He leaned toward me, dropping his voice to a confidential note. "Russia," confided Mr. Jinnah, "is not so very far away."

This had a familiar ring. In Jinnah's mind this brave new nation had no other claim on American friendship than this - that across a wild tumble of roadless mountain ranges lay the land of the BoIsheviks. I wondered whether the Quaid-i-Azam considered his new state only as an armored buffer between opposing major powers. He was stressing America's military interest in other parts of the world. "America is now awakened," he said with a satisfied smile. Since the United States was now bolstering up Greece and Turkey, she should be much more interested in pouring money and arms into Pakistan. "If Russia walks in here," he concluded, "the whole world is menaced."

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.

Jinnah's most frequently used technique in the struggle for his new nation had been the playing of opponent against opponent. Evidently this technique was now to be extended into foreign policy

Posted by john frum 2009-04-09 11:34|| 2009-04-09 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 It ain't personal - they bite every hand around.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-04-09 18:06|| 2009-04-09 18:06|| Front Page Top

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