Thursday, July 03, 2008
Pakistan: Who's fighting whom?
Business Standard: "An extraordinary thing has happened in Pakistan: the government is fighting to retain control of Peshawar even as the jihadis tighten their ring of control around this town of 3 million people in the sensitive Pashtun belt, overlooking the Khyber pass. Eastward, Peshawar is only 155 km from Islamabad, where last year Islamic radicals had captured the Lal Masjid and had to be literally blasted out in an operation reminiscent of Blue Star".
IMO: India is not the enemy and basically wants Pakistan to join the India Free Trade Area, an advantage to all concerned and not a threat to anyone. That does not seem feasible right now and it is really up to the US to protect its own allies, and clear up the Taliban nuisance in its own interest. The US largely helped to create the Taliban problem around Afghanistan - I well remember the pro-Taliban appeals in the USA when Russia ran Afghanistan The US should put its own mistakes right, ASAP. Neutron bombs would do it if the US wants to chicken out, they were quick enough to give neutron bomb technology to China under Nixon and nobody knows the consequences.
Business Standard: "An extraordinary thing has happened in Pakistan: the government is fighting to retain control of Peshawar even as the jihadis tighten their ring of control around this town of 3 million people in the sensitive Pashtun belt, overlooking the Khyber pass. Eastward, Peshawar is only 155 km from Islamabad, where last year Islamic radicals had captured the Lal Masjid and had to be literally blasted out in an operation reminiscent of Blue Star".
IMO: India is not the enemy and basically wants Pakistan to join the India Free Trade Area, an advantage to all concerned and not a threat to anyone. That does not seem feasible right now and it is really up to the US to protect its own allies, and clear up the Taliban nuisance in its own interest. The US largely helped to create the Taliban problem around Afghanistan - I well remember the pro-Taliban appeals in the USA when Russia ran Afghanistan The US should put its own mistakes right, ASAP. Neutron bombs would do it if the US wants to chicken out, they were quick enough to give neutron bomb technology to China under Nixon and nobody knows the consequences.
# posted by uv : 3:28 AM
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