[Hojczyk]

This is worth a read….it is the New York Times…she sounds like a good reporter…LONG ARTICLE….she spent 12 years in the Afghanistan area

[Former Proud Canadian]

Without reading the article I can tell you what Pakistan knew about OBL.

EVERYTHING.

[crosslink]

Ping, starting the media drum beat that Pakistan is bad. Why this article now? Could it be we need to prepare the country for something. Must start the soap opera with a villain. Maybe they are so bad they have a plane?

Crosslink

[vetvetdoug]

Read the book, Lions of Kandahar by Major Rusty Bradley, and in 2006 the SF captured several Pakistani troops supplying the Taliban in Panjwayi from Pakistan in a convoy of fuel trucks and trucks loaded with thousands of small arms. We had hard evidence then that the Pakistanis were supporting the Taliban.

[bkopto]

after 13 years, more than a trillion dollars spent, 120,000 foreign troops deployed at the height of the war and tens of thousands of lives lost, Afghanistan’s predicament has not changed:

Islam.

[JoeProBono]

[canuck_conservative]

but to pull out now is, undeniably, to leave with the job only half-done

I know we (NATO) had to go in there post-911 and flush out the Taliban, but honestly, that whole area - Afghanistan and Pakistan - is one dysfunctional mess of hatred.

The Afghan gov't in bed with opium lords, people that criticise our efforts and still help out the Taliban, Pakistan holding us hostage because they control the only land and air supply routes in - the reasons just pile up to cut out losses and get out.

And I say this as someone from a country that has shed real blood for these unappreciative terrorist-sympathisers ....

[montag813]

Don’t forget what an absolute moron Bush was by making Musharraf his BFF, instead of installing a U.S. protectorate in his place in Islamabad, massing troops inside his Western border, and confiscating all of Pakistan’s nukes.

[Zhang Fei]

This report is in line with I’ve been saying for years - that the Pakistani leadership, not jihad financiers from the Gulf states, are responsible for 9/11. Bush avoided tackling Pakistan head-on because it would have meant a war with a country with (1) a population of almost 200m and (2) a sponsor (China) that was also a major power equipped with a nuclear triad. The last couple of times we fought countries bordering China (North Korea, North Vietnam) without China’s consent, we lost 100K dead. A war with Pakistan would have involved higher casualty numbers unless we used nukes liberally.

[PghBaldy]

I still wonder how many people know what September 11 means to Pakistan (besides the attacks in 2001). It is a holiday celebrating the father of Pakistan.

[Jim Noble]

This is actually an amazing story, by a very brave reporter who has been there and done that.