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2011-05-03 India-Pakistan
It's time to do something about our so-called ally, Pakistan
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Posted by ryuge 2011-05-03 03:17|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 It's time to do something about all your muslim "allies"---fat chance.
Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-05-03 05:06||   2011-05-03 05:06|| Front Page Top

#2 As a Somalian guy i know says the problem with muslim mentality is they are muslims first british,American,French second and they will never give up a fellow muslim!
Posted by Black Bart Phuling7750 2011-05-03 06:46||   2011-05-03 06:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Black Bart- yes, correct. A Christian Ethiopian cabi told me that his 20 year friendship with a fellow Ethiopia, but Muslim, ended after 9/11 and the Muslim cited that he had to "stick with his brothers".
Posted by jack salami 2011-05-03 08:19||   2011-05-03 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 With Hitler dead, things changed rather quickly in our dealings with Stalin too.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-03 08:32||   2011-05-03 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5 If we've known that, which I suspect we have despite the multicultural fog and verbal cowcrap our leaders have been spewing, it amazes me we haven't enlisted a whole army of Christian Arabic speakers to work as translators instead of trusting other Muslims.

Perhaps we have and it just isn't announced.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-05-03 08:57||   2011-05-03 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Pakistan HAD to be at least somewhat complicit in this raid - hard to imagine getting those helicopters that far into the country and that close in to a sensitive location, hanging around for 40 minutes, and getting back out again without someone high up in the Pak governement/military putting serious restraints on their defense forces (that acadamy has to be a prime target for the feared Indian attack, & it must have strong defenses, & they were not activated.)
Hillary & other high-ups have been spending a lot of time over in Pakistan lately, & now we know why - negotiating some kind of deal for Binny. Whether the deal was bribe-based or threat-based (or both) I don't know, but there had to be a deal.
Next question is 'Why now?' Presumably at least in part because we finally had 'certainty' of where he was, but perhaps we at last developed the needed leverage or perhaps Binny finally wore out his welcome? (And of course, perhaps we just needed it as a political diversion.)
Posted by Glenmore 2011-05-03 09:52||   2011-05-03 09:52|| Front Page Top

#7 There are only two reasons for the US to still cultivate Pakistan. The first is that they have half the population of the US, a big chunk of which is dangerous, so we can't just ignore them or they will attack again.

Second, is that China is more than ready to become Pakistan's buddy, with their mutual interest against India, and to help extend Chinese dominance in the Pacific. This is the reason the Chinese built the huge civilian-military port in Gwadar, Pakistan.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-05-03 10:25||   2011-05-03 10:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Anonymoose: have you heard the reports that there are now Chinese troops reinforcing the Pakistani troops on the Pakistani side of the line of control in Kashmir?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-05-03 10:39||   2011-05-03 10:39|| Front Page Top

#9 it amazes me we haven't enlisted a whole army of Christian Arabic speakers to work as translators instead of trusting other Muslims.

rjschwarz, remember how after 9/11 the Iraqi-Jewish community volunteered en masse as translators for the FBI, et al? They were turned down because the Muslim translators refused to work with them... or even if they were there, was another way I heard the story. I suspect the Christian Arabs experienced the same treatment.
Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-03 11:04||   2011-05-03 11:04|| Front Page Top

#10 There are two people that the US had every chance to "neutralize" who have been the "godfathers" of the problems we have today.

First Yasser Arafat as the leader of the PFLP. His terrorist training camps trained the IRA, FARC, Shining Path, the Red Army Faction, components of the Moslem Brotherhood and the list goes on.

Second, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Seventh "President" of Pakistan. He overthrew the Bhutto regime and instituted a campaign that effectively established the madrassah system in Pakistan that fed radical Islam in Pakistan. He was very radical in his beliefs.
Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-05-03 11:32||   2011-05-03 11:32|| Front Page Top

#11 it amazes me we haven't enlisted a whole army of Christian Arabic speakers to work as translators instead of trusting other Muslims. I am not amazed but rather saddened that the USA hasn't CREATED / TRAINED a whole army of loyal non-Muslim Arabic speakers to work as translators here and abroad. It's been TEN YEARS since 9/11. As difficult as Arabic might be to learn, surely TEN YEARS would be enough to create a cadre to competent and loyal translators in Arabic and any of the languages involved in the WOT.
Those Iraqi-Jewish volunteers should have been hired as trainers. Our former military 'terps who have proved their loyalty should be brought here with their families to serve as trainers in the other languages. The US still isn't serious about its role as a world leader.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-03 12:28||   2011-05-03 12:28|| Front Page Top

#12 As per CNN + FOX NEWS AM > Rising tide of US Lawmakers = Congress-critters are DEMANDING THAT POTUS BAMMER + ADMIN SERIOUSLY PUNISH PAKISTAN FOR HIDING OSAMA Lo' THESE SEVERAL YEARS.

OBL was hiding or residing in what is basically a PAK ARMY-CONTROLLED MILPLEX + REGION, a "GARRISON CITY/REGION", + may had been there for as long as SIX YEARS [not THREE] according to Pak Locals as per AM News, thus of course Islamabad didn't know???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-05-03 20:20||   2011-05-03 20:20|| Front Page Top

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