Posted on 04/03/2007 6:12:42 PM PDT by cruel.raoul
A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.
Shouldn't we be killing them, instead?
Did we learn nothing from Afghanistan in the 1980s? Iran in the 1970s? Iraq in the 1950s?
Beware of the leaders who would compromise principles for their goals.
...and a final note: Is this not state-sponsored terrorism?
Do you like cheese?
IBTZ
Nuclear.
No, but ABC is sponsor supported stupidity.
finger-on-zot-button.
Please deal with this problem now and not leave it for my kids/grandkids to wonder why our generation didn’t fix it when we had the chance.
At least it ain’t a duplicate thread, though, right?!
How far? All the F***ing way, newbie. I’ve hated those bastards since November 4, 1979. Payback is long overdue.
does cruelraoul drool? like..a lot?
Not quite sure how far we should go until we actually start fighting them.
Did you learn nothing from the zot to your last screen name?
Already posted here under the article’s real title “The Secret War Against Iran”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1811488/posts
I smell ozone in the air...and hear a faint meow on the wind.
}:-)4
cruel.raoul
Since Apr 4, 2007
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Wecome Abroad!
Maybe ABC News wants you to believe this to further a political agenda?
Whazzat pale green haze?
Did we learn nothing from WWII?
We should have been killing Commies, not allying with them!
NAVY ZOT!
Nice going, liberal. ABC is certainly a pillar of journalistic integrity.../sarc
Why are you treating this article as if it is the truth, and nothing but the truth? I read the article and it’s based on Iran’s “say so”, unnamed sources, and ABC.
I see you just joined FR. Welcome. I won’t call you a liberal (because you said on your page that people shouldn’t do that), but your post does appear as though you wear tinfoil on occasion. :)
Just like a liberal. Hit and RUN AWAY! Bye bye loser!
After reading your post I can understand why some species eat their young.
Is that you Rosie?
Hey Raoul, how Fidel? Feeling better?
It’s just not quite as intimidating imagining that we’re going to start using pimped-out 737s for anti-sub operations. I almost expect there to be a couple of Southwest Airlines flight attendants along for the ride, taping little bags of peanuts to the torpedoes...
}:-)4
Good human intellegence requires dealing with unsavoury characters.
If we were paying people to target the innocent it would be.
However, they are not targeting the innocent, and we are not paying them.
If you guys on the left really want to talk like grown ups--try to think through what you say first.
I smell ozone.
Tired of hitting Troll holes BIGGER than J-Lo's ASS???
Then call the RKBA Fast... Pavers UP!!! 
Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!!!
Some secret!
Welcome to the Free Republic indeed!
Post that you’d rather see Abdulmalak Rigi (A Jihadist heroin smuggler who fought for the Taliban) dead than being helped by the US, and get lambasted as some commie...
For the record, I worked for Lynn Swann, voted for Bednarik, voted against Santorum... There are those of us who don’t fall into easily defined political categories. That I’m not exactly “one of you” doesn’t make me “one of them”. What kind of cred do you need around here? Blood from a liberal?
Anyway, apologies for the repeat thread... does somebody here think I’m some returning poster? True newb. That’s me.
As for my tenure here, I’m not here to troll, “get your goat” with inflammatory stories, resort to personal attacks (although I see that won’t get one banned... but I have class), or just generally be an ass. If I don’t get banned (for what, I don’t know... not voting for Bush?), we’ll disagree plenty- but I will keep it civil. We probably see eye to eye more than you’d care to admit.
Thanks for all the love! Who says only liberals can be compassionate? :-p
of course all the lefties that will raise a huge phony bitch about this will defend all the way Pelosi meeting with the Syrians who are actively allowing terrorists to kill US solsiers in Iraq and Hezbollah to slaughter Israelis over the Lebanese border
We do like we used to do. Support bad guys who are killing worse guys, then kill them. Only half as dirty.
For an “independent thinker”, your thought patterns are pretty typical of a liberal — kind of loose.
“”Did we learn nothing from Afghanistan in the 1980s””
Yes, we assisted indiginous people in Afghanistan who hated the communists and began the collapse the towering evil empire. It is a lefty trollope that our support to Afghani’s somehow brought about Bin Ladin. If you read “The Looming Tower”, it is clear that Bin Ladin was far from any real combat action or US support. Using an almost liberal-magical theater construct Bin Ladin made himself an Afghan hero, but its not true. The fighting Afghans that we supported disdained the pretending Arabs that Bin Laden led.
“””Iran in the 1970s”””
Yes, we had a great learning experience of not using force to respond to an act of war and demonstrating to the world that we could adopt an impotent stance.
And being a nebuous thinker, you have not listed the counter examples of the 1980s - Angola, El Salvador and Honduras, Poland where we successfully supported resistance to communist aggression and domination.
“””And in a final note”””....you again evidence disorganized analysis when you simply ask if this terrorism. Read the article again. The guerillas are not attacking defenseless women and children as the Sunni/Al Queda heroes of the left are in Iraq. Per the ABC report, THAT YOU YOURSELF POSTED the group is reponsible for the deaths and kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials.
Gosh, if lefties could just get this terrorism thing right. Attacking soldiers wearing uniforms (per the article “”videos showing Iranian soldiers and border guards it says it has captured and brought back to Pakistan.”” — not terrorism. Car bombing a group of kids or women in a market — terrorism.
Guerillas are not necessarily terrorists — it depends on their tactics and targets. Is it really that difficult a judgement to make?
Lastly, Iran has been doing exactly this to American soldiers for months, killing 175. On top of all their acts of terrorism (Marine Barracks - Lebanon; Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut; Kidnapping of William Higgins US soldier in UN assignment; and constant attacks on Israel). Did you have the same cry of anguish and accusation at them for those acts?
If we can collapse the terror-master Mullahs via economic sanctions and supporting their internal enemies good. Hope we can do it before our internal enemies especially the ones they have planted damage us.
Snarky insinuations about America sponsoring terrorism does much to illuminate the nature of this class.
If you can't see the difference between those who target the innocent, and those who are dying trying to protect the innocent, then how can a reasonable rational person have a discussion with you?
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