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| Commentary: Alice in Pakistan by Arnaud De Borchgrave |
| 2008-12-27 |
| In his century-old Wonderland classic, Lewis Carroll has Alice saying, "I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle." Substitute Alice for Pakistan and one begins to understand Pakistan's alternating personality syndrome. On Urdu talk shows, Pakistan's Muslim fundamentalists explain Islamist extremists who launched 61 suicide bombers in 2008 against political parties and their rallies as reactions against their spineless anti-Americanism. Terrorist attacks on military installations are rationalized as understandable reactions against an army chief who is pro-American. The three English schools torched in Peshawar recently were described as "nests of paganism." A majority of Pakistanis believe Sept. 11 was a CIA-Mossad plot to justify a crusade against Islam. Which helps explain why there is no shortage of volunteers for suicide missions. Tens of thousands of 16-year-old boys, who have completed 10 years of Koranic studies in madrassa schools, brainwashed against the United States, India and Israel, are mentally conditioned to believe that martyrdom is the highest calling against the heathen. .... |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #4 They keep building the case for us -- the case to annihilate Pakistan as it is becoming utterly unredeemable. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-12-27 13:24 |
| #3 A majority of Pakistanis believe Sept. 11 was a CIA-Mossad plot to justify a crusade against Islam. Which helps explain why there is no shortage of volunteers for suicide missions. Suicide missions like, say, for example, 9/11. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-12-27 08:31 |
| #2 Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. If kittuah leaps for the butterfly and miss, is kittuah the same kittuah if him finds deh success? Is kittuah land on a different place regardless of huntery success or failure? Quantum Kat knows but refuses to take a definite stand. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-12-27 08:24 |
| #1 ALICE's RESTAURANT? ALICE IN CHAINS? Gut Nuthin. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-12-27 00:45 |