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Counter-strike
by Mogamboguru
Posted on 14 April 2009 | 3:12 pm 
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Counter-Strike
While nobody seems to bee willing to talk about it, Pakistan, a close US-ally and holder of nuclear arms, is creaking and poised to breaking under a reckless, relentless campaign of aerial assassinations conducted by unmanned, remotely controlled american Predator-drones.
No, it’s not me who is claiming this, but Pakistani intellectuals and american high-commanders are – quote:
“The United States is now seriously considering destabilizing Pakistan…” cried an outraged Tariq Ali, historian, revolutionary activist, novelist and Pakistani expatriate, in a Democracy Now interview that aired on March 19, 2009.
“…Pakistan, a nation of 175 million, struggles for its very survival,” writes Pervez Hoodbhoy (Frontline, March 27, 2009), Islamabad-based physicist and political activist.
Testifying before a Senate panel, General David Petraeus, chief of US Central Command warned that Pakistan could fall as a state (New York Times, April 2 2009).
David Kilcullen, an influential counterinsurgency expert who has said that within one to six months we could see the collapse of the Pakistani state (Washington Post, March 22, 2009).
And all this is happening – quote:
“The unceasing drone attacks with their reckless and unconscionable contempt for Pakistan’s sovereignty are taking place under the auspices of Barack Obama, the so-called good and law-abiding President…” – unquote.
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Mo show me how many attacks have occurred since the beginning of the year? I have seen two in the news but there are probably more.
The truth is rising influence of extremist groups and terrorist bombings are destabilizing Pakistan more than anything else but the US is making itself a scapegoat with the continued drone attacks. The US is currently reviewing the it’s policy of drone attacks because of the backlash.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97HLDVO0&show_article=1
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Pakistan has been and is destabilizing itself. They have already voluntarily ceded the Swat Valley to the Taliban and conceded to allow it governed under Sharia (religious) law. Against U.S. wishes, that is.
They’ve taken billions in U.S. dollars meant to strengthen the government and embezzled it away with nothing to show.
It has been a marginally failed state for a long time, it may indeed be too late to save it from falling under religious control.
It is a straw man to lay this on the U.S. bombings and it is a tactic I’m sure the Taliban support.
The reverse is true, because Pakistan has deteriorated, Al Qaeda and Taliban are gaining more strength, control and power which does threaten the region and the U.S. (considering they have nukes…in the hands of Taliban or Al Qaeda, that would be a bit scary).
I don’t want another war, I don’t know what the best thing to do in Pakistan is, leave it alone and Al Qaeda and the Taliban will grow more powerful and dominant, bomb it and innocent men, women and children could be harmed and granted, it could add to the growing destabilization (but is not the overall cause of it).
Still, responsibility fir the instability should be firmly placed on the failed leadership in Pakistan.
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April 14th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
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I was for the bombings in the beginning because the most dangerous elements of Al Qaeda and the Taliban are in that region. But the unintentional blowblack from the bombings may outweigh their effectiveness and that’s why the tactic is under review. Taliban and Al Qaeda will blame everything on US policy and still kill hundreds of Pakistanis only to get a more favorable view within the public. The politics of Mideast terror are allot like the politics in this country among trolls. It’s much less based on facts and more based on emotions.
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April 15th, 2009 at 1:09 am
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I’m with you fellers.
(I didn’t mean that to be so trite, but I think you both made great points.)
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Hi Mog
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