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NATO Opts to Not Pressure Pakiland On Harboring Talibunnies
2006-09-16
Key Nato countries have decided not to issue a diplomatic ultimatum to Pakistan which demanded that it ends its support for the Taliban and arrests leaders living in Pakistan.

Nato is placing all its hopes on a critical three-way meeting at the White House on Sept 27 when President Bush is due to meet Pakistani President Pervaiz Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
That should be a fun meeting.
Two months ago senior diplomats from four Nato countries (Britain, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands), whose troops are fighting an estimated 8,000 Taliban in southern Afghanistan, urged their governments collectively to issue a démarche to Pakistan's military regime. They want it to arrest those Taliban commanders openly operating out of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, which adjoins Afghanistan.

However, after a fierce debate on the issue the démarche was cancelled, with Nato members divided on whether or not to pressurise Pakistan.

Britain cited co-operation with Pakistani intelligence in uncovering the recent terrorist plot to attack planes departing London airports. But a Western ambassador in Islamabad said there was a consensus among Nato, US and Rantburg UK intelligence officers in Afghanistan that Quetta is "the command and control centre for Taliban planning, logistics, and recruitment in Afghanistan".

Pakistan denies that it is sponsoring the Taliban. But for the first time since 2001 President Musharraf admitted this week in Brussels that the Taliban are using Pakistani soil to carry out attacks in Afghanistan. The recent intense fighting in southern Afghanistan is partly a Taliban attempt to carve out a safe haven where its leaders can reside during the winter months when fighting winds down.
What, no dreaded Taliban winter offensive?
Posted by:Captain America

#11  Time for the US to get over its "vietnam phobias" and use napalm to clean out the NWFP.

I understand we have extensive stockpiles of VX gas we're looking to dispose of. I cannot think of a better place to do that than Pakistan, Iran, The Magic Kingdom and a few other hellholes.

After allowing sufficient time for the agent to degrade and the corpses to rot, the territory could be recolonized without concern for radiation. All in all, a win/win.
Posted by: Texas Redneck   2006-09-16 21:44  

#10  Time for the US to get over its "vietnam phobias" and use napalm to clean out the NWFP. Sorry, it's going to kill mommies and kiddies and baby ducks, but it'll prevent the next generation from being a problem, and the secondaries will be spectacular. There is no good reason to allow this cesspool to continue to pollute the world.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-09-16 18:23  

#9  Musharraf's got all the cards, and he knows it. That's the problem with strategic moves -- you sometimes have to do stuff that makes you worse off in the short run to make sure that the NEXT guy behaves. Alternatively, we can make the Taliban think that they're winning, feed false information, let them attack, and make sure that they endure the closest thing to hell on earth as possible. What is that, I wonder? Maybe Pork Week at Barbecue University.
Posted by: Perfesser   2006-09-16 14:57  

#8  
Get India to invade with the support of the west is their only hope for salvaging that shithole.

Why would India want them?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-09-16 14:03  

#7  Another f**kin' surprise. Are any 2008 candidates willing to take a stand on immediate withdrawal fro the joke that is the UN ? Newt ??
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-09-16 14:01  

#6  Pakistan like Iran must be priority for the West.

Get India to invade with the support of the west is their only hope for salvaging that shithole.
Posted by: Angins Ebbaling9984   2006-09-16 13:12  

#5  The defense in depth policy is crazy. If India and the Paks every go and it tooth and nail for all the marbles it'll be nuclear. Removing forces to Afghanistan would be useless.

Like TW said - Pakistan is what the enhanced radiation weapon was designed for. I expect India has experimented with them.
Posted by: 6   2006-09-16 05:31  

#4  Mushy recognized Taliban until about a week after 9-11, as part of his dictatorship's "Pakistan in depth" policy. Perhaps, when he took US aid in exchange for an occasional arrest of a foreign Arab, it was only tactical.
Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550   2006-09-16 05:23  

#3  As long as they keep feeding them to NATO/US forces a few at a time, who cares? In the end, they die. And they're good target practice, too!
Posted by: gorb   2006-09-16 04:29  

#2  I'm a thinking... Pakiwakiland may need to come before Iran.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-09-16 00:45  

#1  I hope it's a frank discussion, pun intended. "Perv? Do you want to have a dead country?"
Posted by: Frank G   2006-09-16 00:30  

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