How long will it be before someone — anyone — in the Washington establishment wakes up and realizes that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is never going to “take actions to combat and delegitimize all terrorist groups operating on its soil”? How long will the U.S. keep pouring billions into Pakistan hoping this will happen, only to see a great deal of that money end up in the hands of the very terrorists it was given to Pakistan to fight?
The political establishment is dominated by fools, charlatans, idiots, and people who are only in it for the money and perks that political power offers them. A massive housecleaning is long overdue.
“U.S. mounts pressure on Pak to act against terrorism on its soil,” ANI, October 15, 2016:
…US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner made the remarks while responding to a question about Washington’s position on China blocking the ban called by India on Pakistan based Jamaat-ul-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, whom the US has also designated as a terrorist.
Though Toner did not reply to the specific question, he said, “I would just say that we continue to urge Pakistan to take actions to combat and delegitimize all terrorist groups operating on its soil.”
“We want to help Pakistan confront this terrorist threat, but we also want Pakistan also to go after those terrorists who seek and sometimes find safe haven on Pakistan territory,” he said while acknowledging that Pakistan has suffered greatly at the hands of terrorists and violent extremists….

Tommy says
Never buy Pakistani bagpipes, there crap!
M. Edward Triefler says
Under Obama, not Hillary Clinton, (she was not the decision maker, Obama and his other advisers were) the US has had a disastrous response plan, if indeed there was a plan at all. Obama has been reluctant to do or say anything, his advisers are Arab/Muslim supporters, and he failed in Libya because there was no ‘day after plan.’ He failed in Syria by his lack of action, after the ‘Red Line’ incident which caused France and his other European and Mid-East ‘allies’ to question his (the US) word. Then he failed in Crimea and allowed Putin to dominate World politics. He was ill prepared to be President in 2008 and he continues to this day. I fault the Democratic and Republican Parties; the Republicans in 2008 ran a strong, informed man, my problem regarding Sen. John McCain was that I personally believed, given his 5 years of torture and malnutrition in Vietnam, he would never live to finish his first term, (obviously I was wrong) thus putting an incompetent bimbo, Palin in the White House. As for 2012, I did not believe in Mitt Romney, (I would have voted for Ambassador Jon Huntsman in a NY minuet, but GOP through him under the Bus, because he worked for Obama) it seemed as though he was too disconnected from the majority of Americans. I was wrong again. With the coming election I believe Trump would make Obama look good if elected, therefor we must elect Hillary Clinton, possible the most prepared person ever to run for the office. I believe she will right the ship and stop Putin in his quest for dominance both in Europe and in the Middle East. She will take a stronger position against Erdoğan in Turkey, who like Putin has territorial goals, and should not be a NATO member, especially after his long blocking of NATO airbases fighting ISIL. I also believe that Clinton will be a much better friend to Israel, especially after this latest UNESCO decision to refuse to acknowledge the Jewish People the historical credit for the Temple Mount and the Wall in Jerusalem.
mgoldberg says
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/10/hillary-clintons-long-record-of-enabling-the-global-jihad
Apparently you prefer not to read certain articles also on this site and consider the ramifications.
Hillary is a crook of the highests order…. she was the attack dog sent to try to belittle and betray netanyahu when she was secretary of state. She is no friend of the US, let alone Israel. This is commited to bringing 5x more refugees from the muslem world into the US, to keeping the borders open and porous, and will be worse than Obama, who has simply set the table….
Your comments are beyond incorrect.
Kepha says
The trouble is, if there was any spine in the GOP, the O maladministration’s weaponizing of the IRS and its politicizing the FBI, to say nothing of the numerous scandals surrounding Shrillary Shrooo, would have blown up as something bigger than Watergate. Shrillary Shrooooo is indeed the “prepared” candidate, but she will be a Nixon in a pantsuit whom the MSM allows to do serious damage to the Constitutional integrity of the republic. Worse, this hideous old witch believes that a child of eight months and twenty-odd days may be legally put to death with the most barbaric of medieval tortures and no due process of law as long as it’s still inside the mother’s womb (and she dares to say she cares about children; while we the sheeple believe her). Where she differs from Nixon is that Nixon actually had a very good grasp of what international politics were all about, while Shrillary Shroooooooo of the Mussolini-esque jutting chin proved her incompetence as SecState.
Oliver says
Kepha,
President Nixon WAS A PATRIOT- WHO BELIEVED IN AMERICA. (Dislcosure, before he became pres., I met with him, while in college- he spoke to a group of us–no fee- for a few hours- wide ranging; q & a; very open).
Watergate was to prevent a rigged election (like 1960- when the dead voted in Illinois and Texas to give those states to JFK) for McGovern, whom he feared- FOR WHAT HE AND HIS VIEWS WOULD DO TO THIS COUNTRY. The Clinton’s; Obama; and their ilk are the ones controlling the current Dem party. (Incidentally, the Communist Party of the US has endorsed Hillary Clinton- but the Yahoo and MSM news seem to ahve missed that- but can dig up a 70 year old woman who said that 30 years ago—blah blah blah)
Do not compare Clinton to Nixon.
She would not be fit to wipe his butt if he was defecating.
My view
desidude2 says
You have bought into the western propaganda against Putin. if you look closely at the Ukraine you would realize that the Crimea and eastern parts of that country are mostly Russian speaking and Russian. Putin was correct int taking over these areas. He is protecting the Russian population he does not want any refugee Russians.
As for syria, he is doing what we should have done a few years ago, back Assad against the ISI and the thugs and criminals of the so called free syrian army, who are backed by al qaeda. unfortunately years of backing these thugs have only enabled assad to seek help from the Russians, Iranians, and Hezbollah.This and the refugee crisis are all mess created by Obama and Hillary. Putin is trying to correct this.
gravenimage says
Nothing like Putin having journalists assassinated, as well…
Praeceptor Maximus says
gravenimage
Obama and Hillary had people assassinated too. The guy (his name escapes me now and I am too tired to hunt for it) who was leaking information to Assange got shot in the head only a few of weeks ago, making Assange concerned for his informants. Then there is the matter of his lawyer falling in front of a moving train. It reads like a spy novel. Oh, they kill alright. But go and watch Putin and what he says about the mainstream media in the west that they are keeping their people deliberately in the dark and not telling them the truth.
Oliver says
P M– I recall the case that you are talking about- the young man (I think he was like 22 or so, and worked for the DNC-if it is the same one)- and was in Washington DC, and going to the FBI.
The “official” claim was a mugging/robbery- but he was shot in the back; his wallet and watch were not taken.
And, the report I heard on the radio- not in one of the D C combat zones. AND NOBODY SAW NOTHING.
Praeceptor Maximus says
M. Edward Triefler
Are you serious? On which planet do you live? Surely it can’t be earth. Mate, Hillary is a career criminal. Her crimes are not hidden. It is all out there for anyone with eyes to see. If Hillary gets elected, America will fall and with it the western civilization. Hillary, whom I refer to as the whore of Saudi Arabia, has sold herself and her country to the Saudis. The Saudis do not just give $25 million dollars to her foundation out of the goodness of their heart. Wake up. What is the matter of you? She will flood America with Muslim refugees and believe me she is no friend of Israel. She was one of the architects of that monstrous deal with Iran, enabling Iran to acquire nuclear technology to be first used against Israel and then America itself. Jesus Christ! I hope what you posted was just a joke. Obama’s failures as a president have nothing to do with his unpreparedness. Obama knows exactly what he is doing, which is precisely nothing, that is when he is not plotting to start a war with Russia. Don’t you listen to the stuff he says at the UN. He is a globalist and he is an Islamist. At the UN he said that the future cannot belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. He chastised the influence of Internet, accusing the alternative media of brainwashing young people against globalization. As for Romney and McCain, well I can tell you this: Romney really showed his true colors of what kind of a person he is when he turned against Trump the man that he begged to endorse him when he was running for presidency. And McCain is all for bringing in Muslims to America. As an old historian, let me tell you this one thing: if Hillary gets elected the date 8 Nov. 2016 will go down in history as the date for the fall of America and the western civilization.
Champ says
“Mate, Hillary is a career criminal. Her crimes are not hidden.”
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*Very* true, Praeceptor Maximus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kypl1MYuKDY
Westman says
This is the nation where a man can serve only a year in jail for murdering his first wife in order to propose to another woman, and then, after the new marriage the wife’s family kills her (and her unborn child) because she didn’t marry a cousin or pay a ransom to stay alive. Over a thousand Honor Killings each year in Pakistan, a country that must be kept in line by its military. Who, honestly, thinks this nation is anything but a threat to India and the non-Islamic world?
Everyone should sleep better at night with the realization that this failed state also has nuclear weapons.
Buford says
The hell with Pakistan & these other Demonic Barbarian, Hate Filled Countries create an advisory telling US citizens to avoid travel there & the other Muslim Countries & stop any and all Future
Muslims from entering the US all anybody needs to do is look at what they have done to England France & Germany in 5 – 10 years they will be 3rd world Nations because of these Slimebags.
Mark A says
Pakistan has been harboring terrorists and supporting terrorism for decades.
Comments from US State Department officials aren’t going to change that.
Pakistan is not an ally of western countries. The sooner western countries recognize that fact, the better.
dumbledoresarmy says
Just cut them off, already.
End the ‘aid’. It is only interpreted by Pakistan as jizya, or else as tribute. Cut the bastards off. STOP all trade with them as well. STOP all entry of Muslims from Pakistan, into *any* western country. Round up and expel all Muslims of Pakistani background who have not inveigled their way into western-country citizenship, and take a long hard look at those who *have*, with a view to rejigging existing laws so that these *can* be expelled when they plot/ incite Jihad and/ or commit other crimes… because so many of them are engaged in destructive/ criminal/ seditious activity in the countries where they have settled (e.g. the many, many, many Pakistani Muslim rape-and-pimping gangs in the UK, preying exclusively upon non-Muslim underaged girls, whether native or Indo-British). The Pakistani Muslim who attempted to set off a car bomb in Times Square on 1st May, some years ago, **hatched his plot just after having acquired American citizenship at a ceremony in the course of which he “swore, but didn’t mean” the oath of citizenship. And Austraila and NZ and India and the West Indies could *also* slap down a cricket boycott on Pakistan, just for good measure, to make the point.
Tell Russia and China that, as Infidel nations, they should steer clear of entanglements with mohammedan entities, which *always* backfire to the detriment of the Infidel party to such entanglements. Tell them that if they had a gram of sense, they would join with USA and India to figure out a way of permanently neutralising Pak’s nuke arsenal, so as to promote the safety of Infidels worldwide into the foreseeable future. And tell them that they are bloody STUPID to be protecting horrible Islamic Iran and helping *it* to get nukes.
And… Uncle Sam, with Australia and the UK and Canada, should realign massively towards India, following Israel’s lead.
Oliver says
The last WILL NOT HAPPEN under Obama; and MOST PROBABLY NOT under Clinton.
Would under a Pres. Trump.
By the way– can someone LOGICALLY explain- IF 30 YEARS AGO, Mr. trump groped a woman, -NOW she is talking about it. Mr. Trump has been in the limelight for years and years.
The same (my view) about the allegations about Bill Cosby- these incidents (supposedly) happened years back- why wait.? Make charges when (or shortly thereafter) not decades later. (When memories change-or are changed;witnesses die, etc).
As to the charges re- Trump- did he- even 30 years ago-fly commercial airlines? Didn’t he have his own plane?
A bit off topic-but commenting on last part of d’s statement
gravenimage says
Exactly, DDA–no civilized nation should give these barbarians another penny.
Oliver says
The US started supporting Pakistan during the Cold War, as India, under (I believe it was Indira Gandhi-or started with her-not sure) was leaning towards the USSR.
The US wanted Pakistan as a counterweight to India.
As best I recall, Pakistan was not violent back then-the Muslims were kept (more or less) in place.
Larry says
Doesn’t the name “Land of the Pure” give a very strong indication of exactly what the mindset was behind the founders of Pakistan was?
And doesn’t their behaviour in the nearly 70 years since reinforce that?
Why do so many supposedly smart and aware people in governments around the world continue to treat Pakistan as something that it blatantly obviously isn’t.
One of the things it is, though, is the storehouse for the Sunni’s nuclear weapons. They sure as hell didn’t fund the development of their nuclear arsenal by themselves, and the only place that could have done it at the time was Saudi Arabia. And as soon as Iran provides the evidence that they have nukes you can bet that Saudi Arabia will have them as well.
gravenimage says
State Dept: “We continue to urge Pakistan to take actions to combat all terrorist groups operating on its soil”
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Good luck with that–Pakistan is itself a terrorist state.
Karen says
Dear Mr. Toner, if it’s not too much trouble, could you throw in a little request that they stop killing off all their religious minorities?
Manuele says
YEAH RIGHT! AS IF PAKISTAN WOULD GIVE A SHIT, SHITHEAD