The government of Pakistan does something, a little something, but with a great show for its American benefactors, to counter terrorism in this or that part of Pakistan. At the same time, it makes deals with supporters of the Taliban in Waziristan, and then misrepresents those deals.
Meanwhile, in the cities of Pakistan, including Quetta, the Taliban and its Pakistani supporters cooperate freely with one another. After all, the Taliban owes its existence to Pakistan. It was in the madrasas in Pakistan that each little Talib once studied, and then, properly enthused, moved back in small groups to Afghanistan in the early 1990s, after the Soviet army had been defeated, in order to establishe in Afghanistan Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward All Those Willing to Abide by the Strictest Shari'a. And for the rest -- death.
Pakistan is not an "ally," much less a "staunch ally." It cannot be. It cannot be because of the tenets of Islam, and because the population is overwhelmingly, deeply and truly and disturbingly Muslim. It cannot be no matter what the smoothest and most plausible of generals (Musharraf, for a while) would have us believe, and evidently have succeeded in getting powerful people in Washington to believe. It cannot be no matter what the zamindars say -- Pinky Bhutto and the anglophone children of the elite, who in private schools and colleges in the West are good at winning over first their innocent roommates, then the rest of the students, and then of course the faculty and administrators, who are all eager to be fooled about Pakistan and about Islam.
Meanwhile, the Pakistanis who happen to have acquired English citizenship (which is not the same thing as being "English") through birth or naturalization procedures, but who possess not a "dual loyalty" (that might be manageable) but rather a "single loyalty" -- and that loyalty is only to Islam -- continue to move freely about the cabin of the world. Indeed, they move about freely especially in the First-Class Compartment of the West, in which, unaccountably, they have been allowed to make themselves at home.
Billions of dollars in debt relief, billions in further economic aid, and even billions in military aid have been squandered on Pakistan. After all, Pakistan was always a favorite of American generals: those rectitudinous terry-thomas-moustached generals, that business of "Islam is a bulwark against Communism" -- that was all ye knew on earth, and all ye needed to know. Taliban warriors, upraised in Islam and in terror, live freely in Pakistan -- after having come from all kinds of places. They live untouched in Pakistan and return at will to Afghanistan. Other terrorists raised in Pakistan have over a much longer period persecuted non-Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir, forcing the mass exodus, for example, of 400,000 Kashmiri pandits, as well as murdering Hindu villagers. And still other Pakistani terrorists are raised and trained and supported within Pakistan, sometimes by the intelligence service of the Pakistani military, or I.S.I. The ISI is an entirely sinister group that also helped support and now protects A. Q. Khan. The terrorists it sometimes has supported have over the years attacked deep within India, in Mumbai twice with hundreds of casualties, and in Delhi (the Parliament building) and elsewhere -- so many of the attacks until recently going unreported outside India, and seldom paid attention to.
That is Pakistan. This is the land of our “staunch ally,” where even Musharraf has begun, with the shameful revelations in his new book, to distance himself from Washington. How long will Pakistan receive American aid -- again, a disguised Jizyah whenever Infidels give payments to Muslims, payments that the Muslims take as by right and that the Infidels give as by fearful duty? Bush and Co. can swagger all they want, but their timidity, their lack of imagination, and their obstinacy in a clumsy course that does not recognize the need and possibility of dividing and demoralizing the Camp of Islam, infuriates more and more. More and more innocent and well-meaning American soldiers pay with their lives for that obstinacy, that lack of imagination, that timidity, that stupidity, that Baby-Huey approach based on unrectified ignorance of Islam.
They will be made to sit in the corner, wearing their dunce-caps, soon. But not soon enough.
This indeed is Pakistan.
Welcome to Hell on Earth everyone.
Here is an article that indicates that some opf the MSM is gettint it.
Muslims can never conform to our ways
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/10/20/do2003.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/10/20/ixopinion.html
Its getting better and better. Atlast people are beginning to realise the folly of allowing Muslims into the West. The author is getting near the truth but has a little way more to go. Then the MSM has to ask what to do.
I think we need a year or so of more base appeasement before Islamic demands, and some unmentionables, before the penny drops.
As I wrote, the author is getting near the truth but has a little way more to go. The author proposes the idea, "perhaps we should be thinking in terms of a supreme council on which our principal religions, including Islam, would sit and try to resolve misunderstandings".
What an absurd idea. As far as Muslims are concerned all aspects of society are religio-political. His proposal would mean the dissolution of the Appeals Court and Parliament, and its replacement by a 'supreme council'. Britain will efffectively become a theocratic nation.
Still, the very article merits some praise for raising the issue. Even the proposal is of some merit, as its very absurdity shows that somethimg more innovative is required.
Perhaps the recent assasination attempt on President Musharrif is starting to wake up the Pakistani's...
Or, maybe not..
That's the problem: Apathy and sympathy for the Jihazi factions in the Muslim communities...
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com
The best example of how detached we are from the grim reality of the Islamic War that confronts us is that, when arguing the merits of the Iraq Occupation, not one American politician or opinion celebrity has mentioned that the so-called War On Terror was dealt a major blow with the establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Northern Waziristan, whereby Osama bin Laden was given his own country from which to manage the global Jihad he called with his fatwa in February 1998. Guess who won that confrontation.
It’s best that we call this the Islamic War. More descriptive that way.
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I find the power of Khartoum awesome. It defies the world over Darfur and will continue to do so.
I strongly recommend that you watch the movie Khartoum in which Sir Laurence Olivier plays the madman Madhi, a devout Moslem with a taste for murder, and Charlton Heston plays the English General Charles George Gordon, a devout Christian trying to stop him.
His post-battle victory speech near the beginning of the movie is to me the best cinematic moment ever. Just to hear Olivier pronounce the word Mo-ham-eed makes me feel so alive...
Mushy Raff and his ilk will rue the day they didn't wipe out all those jihadist pigs.
This is Pakistan, playing the west as a friend and showing her true colours to her Islamic brothers, the Taliban.
It's sad that out of a perceived necessity we in the west make alliances with those who do not honor our friendship.
This is where we lose our wars, not on the battle fields, but in the alliances we make. They most certainly are our undoing. The quicker our governments see this the better our chance of survival.
Niv
There's an aspect of this that you never discuss: us. As in US. How come is it that everyone is so blind: liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats? If I were superstitious, I'd think the Devil had something to do with it. Even those who reject leftist anti-Western rhetoric might wonder in astonishment that such an advanced civlization, which gave us so much art, philosophy, literature, science, technology, etc., is now so stupid about a manifest and potentially mortal threat. And I don't mean abroad but on our home turf. The demographics of Europe are much more important than anything happening in the Middle East, and when Europe falls, what happens to us?
On the subject of Pakistan, I was very impressed by an essay by Carlo Panella in Il Foglio back in July 2005, a week or so after the 7/7 bombings in London. He hit all the main points, as I recall, including the British and later, American support for this bastard state over the years. The US foreign policy establishment used to claim that supporting Pakistan was needed in order to oppose Communism. Now, with a nuclear Pakistan, the whole world is "eating it" as Israelis say.
referring to access to Panella's article on Pakistan mentioned above. Il Foglio has an archive which I believe can be accessed through the Internet without charge. You just have to get a user name and password.