After all the money(Billions), and the lives(thousands) and the promises(countless) poured into Pakistan from the West, and in particular the US, we see Vice President Biden finally express the frustration of the Administration over Pakistan's lack of progress, or real success against what we still call the "tiny minority of extremists". What is striking is the fact that both Biden and Obama have consistently supported the corrupt and Islamic regime there, and kept the money and support flowing no matter what.
Our willful blindness in the acceptance by our "friends" of our almost unlimited support with no real benchmarks to achieve will, when push comes to shove only expose the gaping hole of Islamism we have been dumping our earnestly-believed hopes of peace into.
From
The Times of India Jan 13
US patience on N Waziristan ops running out: Joe Biden
ISLAMABAD:
Making it clear that the US patience is running out over Pakistan's indecision on military action against terrorist sanctuaries in North Waziristan, US Vice President Joe Biden has unequivocally told his interlocutors in Islamabad that the Americans would not wait indefinitely.
With no real definition of the word "indefinitly" we are left to puzzle: just how many years constitutes "indefinitly", Mr. Vice President?
During his press conference alongside Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Biden sought to dispel a conception that the United States had drawn the country into war, saying that violent extremists were not a threat only to the US, but also to Pakistan and the entire civilised world. He stressed that al-Qaida and the Taliban continued to pose a threat to the US and its interests from their safe havens in Pakistan's tribal areas.
"They (al-Qaida) continue to plot attacks against the United States and our interests to this very day and they have, not with your help, but they have found refuge in the most remote portions of your country," the Dawn quoted Biden, as saying.
Attempting to make the Pakistanis wake up to the threat posed by extremists to the country and its people, he cautioned: "Societies that tolerate such actions wind up being consumed by those actions."
Cue the repeat of history music...
Biden had set the tone for the Islamabad trip by voicing concern in Kabul over Pakistan being too soft with the Taliban.
"It is going to require more pressure on the Taliban from Pakistani side of the border than we have been able to observe so far," the vice president had said in the Afghan capital.
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3 comments:
Simple solution:Divide Pakistan into 6 courtries.
The Pashtoons in the NW actually would like that. Let the Panjabis keep the nukes, and let the wild people in NW separate. We could support the separatist movements of Pashtoons, Baluchis. Kashmiris, even Sindhis.
Also, divide Turkey (give the East to the Kurds, and and some to the Armenians.
Divide Iraq, give the North to the Kurds. Also, give the North of Syria to the Kurds. Then the Kurds will be our natural alies for at least a generation, or two.
Romans knew exactly how to divide and rule, it is high time for the Americans to learn from their predecessors.
And for the idiots who are going to criticize my spelling: Focus on content, not on the container.
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