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| US evacuates Pakistan embassy personnel |
| 2002-03-23 |
They read the papers, too. The church bombing on Sunday, Qazi's meeting with the Lashkar-e-Taiba thugs in preparation for the election campaigns, Daniel Pearl's murder and the subsequent refusal to hand over Omar Sheikh, and the loss of control (even if they want to control them) of the gunnies and boomers by the fundo parties. It could be a temporary measure in response to the obvious dangers. More likely it's a strong signal we've noticed that Pakland is the world's premier producer and exporter of terrorists and terrorism. You thought it was Palestine, didn't you? Admit it. Well, do the korpse kounts and then do the thing with maps and pinheads. And even when Afghanistan was in the business, who was running the camps and where were the reception centers? Whose madrassahs did the recruits come from? Musharraf's said he's cracking down on terrorism 11,214 times, by my count, and that's involved house arrest for the Bigs and no charges filed against the rank-and-filers, who are the controllers and runners for the system. That way they can be sprung and everybody can look virtuous. "If they harbor terrorists, the president's message is clear: We will defeat you," Ari Fleischer said back in September, reiterating Bush's comments. Pakland not only harbors them, it produces them on an assembly line. I think the message here is that if Perv won't defeat them, we will. Guess that's why we have "no immediate plans" to take Iraq apart. If there is a quagmire to be stuck in its trying to economically and diplomatically prop up any Pakistani regime of any stripe. Before 11 Sept the reasonable editors of the Dawn were pointing out that progress was being held up by internal politics. Now we are the convenient scapegoat for these radically idiotic medievalists. The one thing that irks me is that the Indians have seemingly failed to see the point that the Moslems they need to worry about are the ones who aren't in India, but the ones who aren't. If the Indian government and opposition were to get serious about becoming modern themselves, the Pakistani urge to slum in the 16th century would rapidly lessen. Now we only have a stasis on the subcontinent based on the weakest elements of both countries. Let's try again... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |