Pakistan’s Dangerous Double Game

Hah, the party's over for the 2 faced P-stani's. Its just beginning for US forces. No more $, no attack choppers, and NO F-16's. Put the strike packages together and let it rip, hit them all over the tribal areas. In May there was less than 50 camps, now there are over 160. All done with the tacit approval of the P-stani military and ISI. AURA 123 better check ur history, coz the ISI created the Talib movement. The US backed alot of anti-Soviet players, but the P-stani's put Omar&Co in power. Those schools, called madrosses, are actually a breeding ground for moslem extremism. They teach hate and intolerance, and its long overdue they get wats coming. I spent 30 months total there, and I have seen it. They are BARBARIC. They think its thier "duty" to kill ALL non-moslems, so my advice to you is convert and join those cretins, or reject thier beliefs and join the "human" race. R. 1 BCT, A Co LRS 101st Airborne

The "students of Islam" or the Taliban was born in the tribal areas (NWFP, FATA) of Pakistan in the late 1980's to early 1990's funded and armed by the Pakistani ISI. The infrastructure of madarassas and guns (some of it from the US - post-Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) existed in a conducive and fundamentalist environment to welcome and nurture this birth. The aim of the ISI was to prevent having two "anti-Pakistan" neighbors on each side of its borders. India, bigger and powerful, will remain a foe; however, weaker Afghanistan can easily be invaded and controlled. Furthermore, the India-Afghanistan relationship will be cutoff giving Pakistan easy access and control of Afghanistan via the Taliban.

Well, the Taliban movement grew strong enough to takeover Afghanistan thanks to the ISI and its' friends in the military and the Taliban friendly areas of FATA and NWFP in Pakistan. These areas had for a long time (since 1947) been providing jihadists to fight and wrestle Kashmir from the infidel India. Come in Al Qaeda. Now, there were other fish to fry - mama infidel the US. The cradle of international terrorism was firmly in place to create havoc around the world. Pakistan via the ISI allowed the country to become a training ground and hideout for Islam based terrorists. Seeds sown soon after its' violent break-off with India were, finally, bearing fruit.

Pakistan gave birth to the Taliban - Pakistan cannot and will not abandon its' own child!
What was the US thinking?

Pakistan is categorized by International Terrorism Experts World Wide ,as the most dangerous
terrotist country in the World.
It is super-corupt.the army has always said the last word,sinde its foundation without any respect
for its corrupt politicians.
The ISI is as terrorist itself as the Taliban,with evidence of support for it (the taliban).
Let us hope that this conflict does not degenerate into a frontal confrontation, between the
United States of America and Pakistan,because of its continual logistical support of the
Taliban,and of their Muslim Sympathy against anything non-muslim,the WEST and the
U.S.A. at the front.

I have always thought that an invasion of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia was appropriate given their roles in providing manpower, $$ and material support and shelter to those who carried out 9/11. Unfortunately, the Bush regime has protected them for a long time given the long-standing oil business relationships between Bush and his Texas cronies and the House of Saud.

Vkarthik - Hundu extremism has been the problem in the subcontinent long before Pakistan was ever created. The caste system has subjugated millions of Indians for centuries. Hindu extremist massacred thousands of Muslims in Gujjarat . India has raped, murdered and tortured thousands of Kashmiri's, in 60 years of brutal state repression, documented by Amnesty International. For years India has sponsored terrorism in Pakistan.

It's ironic that they'd probably be shooting at us with the very weapons we gave them via foreign aid if they're indeed serious about not letting the US make cross boarder raids.

Pakistan has mobilized about 100k troops, yet they're still sitting on their hands as far as the tribal area is concerned. If they're not going to do anything about it, foreign aid should be cut off completely until we get some results.

Despite what the media tells you, nationalism and the inability to lead a good life are more important factors than religious extremism in the insurgencies in the Middle-east. Remember the Crusades? They were funded by the Pope and the monarchies, but the crusaders were mostly commoners who had no food to eat and had to join the Crusades for three meals a day. Rebuilding Afghanistan and helping out the Pakistani government would be much more effective than going in Pakistan and causing high civilian casualties, angering the military and the Pakistani people. That's not only futile, it's also irresponsible. One million Iraqis were killed and three million Iraqis fled Iraq in just three years. ANY Iraqi would be pissed.

For my firend who said that "Comment: "Pakistan gave birth to the Taliban." Your history is very weak
Go back and read the history who fought against sovite union and who created Taliban ,

America created all the Taliban to fight against Soviet Union , American given them all kind of weapons and when the war finished , America left those guys without clearing the mess they created on Pakistani soul

They didn't have schools, jobs ,any system but only thing they had gift from US i.e Weapons
Pakistan is not a rich coutry , Pakistan didn't have enought resouces to provide school and jobs to all those fighter left after soviet war,

Pakistan paid the price then and now paying the price again for American's policies

Step 1-Spend @ $1-2 trillion to refit the US with solar power and wean off of petroleum.
Step 2-Pull our military back from vulnerable areas like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Step 3-Drop 700-800 thermonuclear warheads on Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan. (goal is not to just kill the people, but to sterilize the soil, even)
Step 4-Make anyone in the Middle East who wants to target the US with retaliation for Step 3 aware that we have several thousand more warheads available to target them as well.

"We are nice to those who work with us." Until you invade that country, of course. Remember Iraq and how the U.S. supported it during its war with Iran? Remember Afghanistan and the U.S.'s secret war with the USSR? The entire guerrilla organization of both of these countries are trained and equipped by the U.S. And now the U.S. is fighting against them. It is not just hypocritic and irresponsible. It's woefully idiotic.

Very concerned, you guys are about rise of Taliban in Afghanistan. Thats legit, but tell me one thing. Who supports and funds TTP and Mulla Fazllulah of Swat. Who funds them to destroy bridges and Motels. Burn schools. Does the ISI fund them to do that in Pakistan? Who funds BLA? How do they get satellite phones, night vision goggles and sophisticated weaponary. Does ISI pay them to destroy pipelines and power stations. Where is Bahram Bugti hidding? Any guess. The answer is very simple. RAW is inside afghanistan and their consulates are hub for terrorist activety against Pakistan. The US knows that. Karzai knows that. But what does US do in this regard. Nothing. Terrorism against Pakistan is cultivated right under your God damn noses and you look they other way. If Pakistan intelligence are playing double game, good for them.

This is rank hipocrisy by Americans. They only care about themselves. Newsweek will never have the balls to write about this now will they.

The U.S.'s International War on Terror was conceived as a coalition of countries from all over the world spanning Christian Europe, the Islamic World, South and East Asia adn the rest of the world. It was supposed to demonstrate that the war was primarily against extremists and terrorists and not against the Islamic nations of the world.

Well... Bush's war has targetted Iraq creating 800,000 civilian deaths in 6 years of war and had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11; is threatening Iran with bombiing, and is now at Pakistan's doorstep about to start bombing the hell out of them because they have not performed as the U.S. wanted them to.

Sounds like it's snowballing into a generalized war against Islamic people.

What a far cry from the original plan to cooperate against terrorism on the basis of multiculturalism and religious diversity!

It's beginning to sound like something akin to "CristalNicht" of 1938 in Nazi Germany.

All Americans of conscience awaken...