It seems all but miraculous that no one has claimed "Pakistanophobia" as the root of these reports of Pakistan's double game. "Secret NATO Taliban report revives Pakistan fears," by Nick Paton Walsh for CNN, February 1:
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Pakistan continues to support the Taliban in Afghanistan, a secret NATO report says, according to a journalist who has read it, despite years of Pakistani denials and American pressure to stop backing the insurgencyThe Taliban depend on Pakistan for support, even though they do not necessarily welcome it, Times of London reporter Jerome Starkey said Wednesday, citing the report.
The leaked NATO document revives the longstanding accusation that elements in Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency are aiding the insurgency in Afghanistan.
It says the ISI knows the whereabouts of all senior Taliban commanders, Starkey said.
"It is a marriage of convenience," he said. The Taliban see Pakistan as manipulative, but they see no alternative to accepting its support, he said.
The Taliban are absolutely confident of victory, he said the report found, based on 27,000 interviews with more than 4,000 detainees ranging from senior Taliban commanders to Afghan civilians.
They also include mid- and low-level Taliban, al Qaeda, and foreign fighters, he said.
NATO downplayed the importance of the report Wednesday, after it was leaked, while Pakistan rejected key conclusions entirely....
Pakistan's number-one export in 2011 was angry denials.
Pakistan is the biggest vermin out there!!
This is precisely why "the war we can't afford to lose" is an unwinnable one. The US war effort in Afghanistan is too dependent on that treacherous polity called Pakistan, which has always been playing a double game with the US over Islamic terror.
USA billions to Pakistan then to ISI then to Taliban. US is basically killing it's own soldiers by funding Pakistan, wake up & stop funding them America. Pakistan knew Bin Laden was hiding there for years, Pakistan is possibly the biggest & most corrupt pile of crap in the world, you know they are double dealing you USA, stop pretending they are your allies.
I've been thinking about all of this lately.
I'm going to make a prediction.
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The next "world war" will begin in Pakistan, when a nuke goes off there. I used to think that Lebanon and Syria were key, but I've decided that the Pakistanis (and the Taliban, Afghani or not) are the most duplicitous, Islam-warped individuals on the planet.
They will self-destruct, as a natural course of evolution.
Let's just hope the rest of the species doesn't go down with them, and of course, if my prediction turns out to be correct, there is a very real possibility that we'll never know that it was.
It's the stuff of nightmares, David. .and believe you me, I've had a few too.