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The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by davidif: 8:17pm On Apr 23, 2009 |
This is what they get for playing both sides of the fence. For years, pakistan was in denial, they were signing peace treaties with them thinking that they were there friends and that they could control them, now see what's happening. Whenever they signed a peace treaty with the taliban, they would just use it to regroup, then when they are stronger, they start attacking again. George Bush was right, he warned them earlier on but they didn't listen. This guys would come and cause trouble in Afghanistan, then run back across the border into Pakistan. As if that wasn't bad enough, the pakistani secret service (ISI) were very close friends with this guys and they used to give them a lot of money. Pakistan is a weak state which has nuclear weapons and if they collapse all bets are off. Let's hope India doesn't stand by and watch this happen. morale of the story: don't keep a cobra as a pet, IT CANNOT BE DOMESTICATED. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/world/asia/24pstan.html?hp http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1893370,00.html |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by davidif: 11:16pm On Apr 23, 2009 |
Syria and Lebanon should both learn from this, that if you harbor terrorist organizations they would come back to bite you. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by RichyBlacK(m): 11:19pm On Apr 23, 2009 |
Foreign Affairs section. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by agabaI23(m): 11:27pm On Apr 23, 2009 |
not a good sign |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by bawomolo(m): 4:28pm On Apr 24, 2009 |
davidif: Lebanon has already learnt it's lesson, hezbollah is the de-facto lord of Sothern Lebanon and actually has two elected MP's in the lebanese parliament. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by yeswecan(m): 5:20pm On Apr 24, 2009 |
davidif: You are right. Personally I think Americans and Nato Armies should leave Middle East. They should go home; the war is not worth fighting. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by Nobody: 6:03pm On Apr 24, 2009 |
yeswecan: my own feelings too. Let them leave Afghanistan but shld America be attacked . . . they reserve the right to bomb the country of origin back to the stone age. Simple. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by 4Play(m): 10:52pm On Apr 24, 2009 |
If the US leaves the Middle-East, the Islamists will not leave the US alone. Long distance bombing makes no difference either from a deterrence or a punitive perspective. What bombing can the US do from long distance that they haven't been able to do with troops on the ground? Besides, the Islamists are a death cult and will welcome the carpet bombing of their land. The problem stems from the fact that people expect quick solutions. The Islamist threat is 14 centuries old and people are moaning about the intractable nature of its modern incarnation. The objective should be containment and you need troops on the ground to do that. Running away from the problem won't make it go away. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by xTheorist(m): 3:47pm On Apr 29, 2009 |
4Play I like that! Our memories are short. Very short indeed! In the 80s Soviet failed to disband Afghans. Before that Britain allied with India - back when India, Pakistan and Burma were all one Nation - failed to destabilize the Afghanis. Before that Rome waged unsuccessful war against Ottoman to occupy Afghan. We are in the 20s and it's America's turn. We ought to take lessons from history and do the right thing. We cant just leave them alone, something concrete must be done. What would you prescribe? |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by nikolaremu: 1:57pm On May 03, 2009 |
what is so terribly wrong with the afghan way that the rest of the worldwont leave them alone. who is so terrified of the talibans, the cost of wiping off the talibans is much higher than any evil the talibans have committed, wy ask, ask, ask, ask, as, |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by davidif: 12:18am On May 26, 2009 |
No matter what we just can't leave the country like that. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by davidif: 12:19am On May 26, 2009 |
As of recent though, the pakistani army has launched an offensive against Taliban controlled areas to try and regain control over them. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by Tudor3(m): 9:04am On May 30, 2009 |
Islam = chaos The americans made a huge mistake remaining behind and trying to develop the place After 9/11 ,they should have just gone,blow the place to stone age and get the hell outta there. The remnants can then pick up their lives. If they get itchy again, you repeat the same bombing. That'll be a whole lot cheaper than the trillons down the drain occupying that failed nation. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by Afam(m): 9:33am On May 30, 2009 |
x_Theorist: The content in bold refers, are you aware of the role the US played in making sure that the Soviet did not win the war with Afghanistan? Do you know how the Talibans came into being? Have you heard about the Mujahadeens? Do you know anything about the support Osama Bin Laden got from the US when his men where fighting the Soviets? In fact I agree with you, our memories are indeed very short. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by iniguy(m): 5:11pm On Jun 01, 2009 |
Pakistan is already a failed state. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by davidif: 2:10am On Jun 09, 2009 |
The americans made a huge mistake remaining behind and trying to develop the place what kind of a dumb statement is this? |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by aurenflani: 1:49pm On Dec 10, 2011 |
@afam. Do tell me, if after ostracising ojukwu from biafra, nigerian troops continued a systematic bombing of all igbo towns and villages to "stone age" just so that what remain of d igbo pplation might not try a future revolt again, what would u have made of that today? I see dis characteristics with mainly igbo ppl dat if hell should be unleashed on others not their ppl they immediately react with some sort of approval and satisfaction whereas they cry like babies when their own tribesmen come under attack from others. very ill-minded set of loosers. |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by cap28: 6:03pm On Dec 10, 2011 |
davidif: i dont know if you know this but the taliban were actually created by the CIA and the ISI (pakistan intelligence services) they were used as pawns by both govts to destabilise afghanistan and get rid of a pro soviet govt. Their predecessors are the mujahideen who were created by a former US national security adviser known as Zbigniew Brzinski, the americans did not want a pro soviet govt in afghanistan despite the fact that this govt was democratically elected, provided equality for women and a good social welfare system for the afghani people. here is a quote from a former US congressman about the US govts funding and support of the mujahideen: [b]The objective of the intervention, as spelled out by Brezinski, was to trap the Soviets in a long and costly war designed to drain their resources, just as Vietnam had bled the United States. The high level of civilian casualties that this would certainly entail was considered but set aside. According to one senior official, "The question here was whether it was morally acceptable that, in order to keep the Soviets off balance, which was the reason for the operation, it was permissible to use other lives for our geopolitical interests." Carter's CIA director Stansfield Turner answered the question: "I decided I could live with that." According to Representative Charles Wilson, a Texas Democrat, The mujahideen consisted of at least seven factions, who often fought amongst themselves in their battle for territory and control of the opium trade. To hurt the Russians, the U.S. deliberately chose to give the most support to the most extreme groups. A disproportionate share of U.S. arms went to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, "a particularly fanatical fundamentalist and woman-hater."' According to journalist Tim Weiner, " [Hekmatyar's] followers first gained attention by throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil. CIA and State Department officials I have spoken with call him 'scary,' 'vicious,' 'a fascist,' 'definite dictatorship material." There was, though, a kind of method in the madness: Brezinski hoped not just to drive the Russians out of Afghanistan, but to ferment unrest within the Soviet Union itself. His plan, says author Dilip Hiro, was "to export a composite ideology of nationalism and Islam to the Muslim-majority Central Asian states and Soviet Republics with a view to destroying the Soviet order." Looking back in 1998, Brezinski had no regrets. "What was more important in the world view of history?, A few stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War>" http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_CIA_Taliban.html |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by cap28: 6:51pm On Dec 10, 2011 |
In 1994, a new group, the Taliban (Pashtun for "students" http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_CIA_Taliban.html |
Re: The Taliban Are About To Take Over Pakistan. by cap28: 7:30pm On Dec 10, 2011 |
The reference to oil and pipelines explains everything. Since the collapse of the USSR at the end of 1991, U.S. oil companies and their friends in the State Department have been salivating at the prospect of gaining access to the huge oil and natural gas reserves in the former Soviet republics bordering the Caspian Sea and in Central Asia. These have been estimated as worth $4 trillion. Afghanistan itself has no known oil or gas reserves, but it is an attractive route for pipelines leading to Pakistan, India, and the Arabian Sea. In the mid-1990s, a consortium led by the California-based Unocal Corporation proposed a $4.5 billion oil and gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan. But this would require a stable central government in Afghanistan itself. Thus began several years in which U.S. policy in the region centered on "romancing the Taliban." [quote][/quote] http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_CIA_Taliban.html |
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