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2005-02-15 Afghanistan/South Asia

Musharraf urges west to help resolve disputes

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Posted by kashar 2005-02-15 11:16|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sounds like a shakedown attempt to me...

Posted by Raj 2005-02-15 12:13:13 PM|| 2005-02-15 12:13:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 kashar,

Outstanding rant! Bravo! Bravo! I see you have successfully completed upper level courses in Advanced Verbal Bludgeoning. A few more performances like this one and the Rantburg scouts are sure to take notice. Well done.

Posted by Psycho Hillbilly 2005-02-15 1:11:20 PM|| 2005-02-15 1:11:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, PH? The above rant is by Grand Master Fred. Kashar just posted the story.

Posted by Steve 2005-02-15 1:58:06 PM|| 2005-02-15 1:58:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 GrandMaster Flash Fred, the "Rapper", remember?

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-15 2:15:54 PM|| 2005-02-15 2:15:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Shakedown's an ugly word, Raj. I think what he meant to say was, "These nice uniforms cost lots and lots of money".

Posted by tu3031 2005-02-15 2:41:46 PM|| 2005-02-15 2:41:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Woo hoo! Preach it, Fred, baby!!

(PH, you definitely have the discriminating palate to recognize a master. Nicely said, even if to the wrong target -- the dark yellow highlighter shows comments by the article poster. On the other hand, kashar provided the canvas on which Fred's little masterpiece could be painted. )

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-15 3:34:07 PM|| 2005-02-15 3:34:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 My apologies to Fred. I am red/green color blind, so the highlighter colors tend to all look the same to me.

Damn disability! It cost me my job on the Bomb Disposal Squad! I'm suing somebody!

Posted by Psycho Hillbilly 2005-02-15 5:19:17 PM|| 2005-02-15 5:19:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Have you considered work in the traffic control field PH? It's booming too.

Posted by Shipman 2005-02-15 6:13:13 PM|| 2005-02-15 6:13:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fred, If I may, I'd like to take issue with one of your solutions:

Afghanistan? Problem solved: Bad Guyz chased out of the country with minimal corpse count.

Uh, chase the Bad Guyz where?

They mostly went to Pakistan, where there was a noted lack of cooperation in dealing with them, but where they have posed a major problem for Musharraf.

The quid-pro-quo seemed to be: Musharraf would let them back in the country and look the other way, and in return they'd try to blow him up, engineer a coup, and hopefully gain control of the nuclear weapons, with which they'd eventually do something that would turn out in the long run to be Very Bad for Pakistan.

Now a helpful hint: maybe it's time for the Pakistani government to take some of the effort they're spending on planning their next Subtle Plan ^TM to invade India and lose even more territory to them and instead try to actually control the territory they have, in particular the NWFP, who appear to believe that they have the right to be totally autonomous from the rest of Pakistan, except for foreign policy, which they believe they have the right to determine, no matter how ineptly, and no matter how many people from the rest of Pakistan wind up dying in the process.

Musharraf needs to get control of his military and intelligence services, and the enemy there isn't across the line of control in Kashmir. Or in Afghanistan plotting to split away Balochistan. (That's their current conspiracy theory, right?)

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-02-15 7:20:07 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-02-15 7:20:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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