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2005-05-28 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by Fred 2005-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 first!

always first fer nugents!

Posted by muck4doo 2005-05-28 03:03|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-05-28 03:03|| Front Page Top

#2 "Girls not safe in Pakistan"

I'm sure the writer squirmed while this loving father went down the list of reasons.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-05-28 06:45|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-05-28 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 [Suhrawardi] said that he was not in favour of defying America as long as Pakistanâs air force was not able to attack America and defeat it...

Somebody care to tell this bozo that there's a little thing called a 'Trident submarine'?

Posted by Pappy 2005-05-28 09:07|| 2005-05-28 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I don't think the bozo has any idea how far away America is located.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-28 09:55|| 2005-05-28 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 what a f*&ked up hellhole of ignorance, hate, and cults

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-28 10:50|| 2005-05-28 10:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Nugets for you muck4adoo! :)

Posted by Pheth Phesh2763 2005-05-28 11:45|| 2005-05-28 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Mister 4Doo cheats, he/she hangs around and reloads the page every 48 seconds hoping for a frist.

Posted by Shipman 2005-05-28 12:38|| 2005-05-28 12:38|| Front Page Top

Writing in Khabrain, Azam Sultan Suhrawardi stated that Benazir Bhutto was wrong when she told the Americans that they should get Pakistan to adopt democracy the same way Iraq and Afghanistan had. The columnist said that he was not in favour of defying America as long as Pakistanâs air force was not able to attack America and defeat it, but Benazir was steps ahead of Musharraf in becoming a slave to America.

So we're going to give them F-16's (among other stuff)?

We should be spending that money on our own Army. Maybe the M-8 tank, and some XM-8 Rifles and Carbines in 6.5 or 6.8...

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-05-28 13:05|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-05-28 13:05|| Front Page Top

#9
The fact that the US is giving F-16s to the PAF has no effect on the fervent wish of many Pakistanis that the PAF would someday be strong enough to attack America.

Reading Margaret Bourke-White in 1979 is instructive.

I wondered whether the Quaid-i-Azam considered his new state only as an armored buffer between opposing major powers. He was stressing America's military interest in other parts of the world. "America is now awakened," he said with a satisfied smile. Since the United States was now bolstering up Greece and Turkey, she should be much more interested in pouring money and arms into Pakistan. "If Russia walks in here," he concluded, "the whole world is menaced."

In the weeks to come I was to hear the Quaid-i-Azam's thesis echoed by government officials throughout Pakistan. "Surely America will build up our army," they would say to me. "Surely America will give us loans to keep Russia from walking in." But when I asked whether there were any signs of Russian infiltration, they would reply almost sadly, as though sorry not to be able to make more of the argument. "No, Russia has shown no signs of being interested in Pakistan."

This hope of tapping the U. S. Treasury was voiced so persistently that one wondered whether the purpose was to bolster the world against Bolshevism or to bolster Pakistan's own uncertain position as a new political entity. Actually, I think, it was more nearly related to the even more significant bankruptcy of ideas in the new Muslim state -- a nation drawing its spurious warmth from the embers of an antique religious fanaticism, fanned into a new blaze.

They perceive American weapons as an entitlement.
There is and will never be gratitude to America.

Posted by john 2005-05-28 13:48|| 2005-05-28 13:48|| Front Page Top

#10 That should be 1949 not 1979.

Posted by john 2005-05-28 13:50|| 2005-05-28 13:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Benazir was steps ahead of Musharraf in becoming a slave to America.

You gotta junp down (HUH!)
Turn around, (HUH!)
Pick a bale of ~~cotton~~ opium...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-05-28 14:51|| 2005-05-28 14:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you
Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you
I wanna love you so bad till I don't know what to do

I'm going down to Louisiana to get me a mojo hand
I'm going down to Louisiana to get me a mojo hand
I'm gonna have all you women right here at my command

Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you
Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you
I wanna love you so bad till I don't know what to do

I got a gypsy woman givin' me advice
I got a gypsy woman givin' me advice
I got some red hot tips I got to keep on ice

Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
.....

But it - uh uh - just won't work on you

Posted by Mr. Muddy Waters 2005-05-28 20:54|| 2005-05-28 20:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Hey! Careful with Muddy! Him and me were friends!

I used to get him away from his handlers and to the good parties. He'd always invite me to his table at
The Zoo Bar in Lincoln NE. (he was a regular player in the 70s)

Posted by 3dc 2005-05-28 23:48|| 2005-05-28 23:48|| Front Page Top

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