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2010-01-18 India-Pakistan

World must step forward to help Pakistan: Zardari

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Posted by Steve White 2010-01-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Terrorism as cash crop. Groovy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-01-18 02:27|| 2010-01-18 02:27|| Front Page Top

#2 What exactly is Pakistan doing to help Pakistan?

I am with comment #1 ... you don't enable terrorism and then use it as a mechanism to extort cash from other countries.

It is time to start flying strikes against the ISI if Pakistan doesn't straighten up and fly right. The world is growing tired of the drama.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-01-18 04:05|| 2010-01-18 04:05|| Front Page Top

#3 sounds like "The Mouse that Roared" from the dark side.

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-18 07:43|| 2010-01-18 07:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Gee, we'd love to help you out. Which door did you come in?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-18 10:47|| 2010-01-18 10:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Help Pakistan? Isn't that what all those dronezaps are for?

Posted by SteveS 2010-01-18 13:17|| 2010-01-18 13:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Margaret Bourke-White of LIFE magazine wrote this in 1947

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.

Posted by john frum 2010-01-18 17:11|| 2010-01-18 17:11|| Front Page Top

#7 What exactly is Pakistan doing to help Pakistan?

What do you think Sept 11, 2001 was? Pakistan was in a tough spot after the nuclear testing sanctions and the US sided with India over the Kargil invasion. Pakistan's plan to remake the game board worked like a charm.

Posted by ed 2010-01-18 17:20|| 2010-01-18 17:20|| Front Page Top

#8 IIRC FREEREPUBLIC > THE COLLAPSE/DEFEAT OF NUCLEAR PAKISTAN [Militants] MAY LEAD TO WORLD WAR III. "Great Powers" milpol confrontation over spread of Militant Terrorism beyond AFPAK throughout CENTRAL-SOUTH-EAST ASIA, to include NUKE = ADVANCED NBC-CBRN TECH PROLIFERATION to Militant Groups.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-18 18:34|| 2010-01-18 18:34|| Front Page Top

#9 They don't call him Mr. Ten Percent for nuthin...

Posted by tu3031 2010-01-18 18:57|| 2010-01-18 18:57|| Front Page Top

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