"Let's You and Him fight" is the oldest game on the block.
Posted on 08/13/2021 7:38:31 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
The American defeat to the Taliban and, by extension, Pakistan is a humiliation rooted not in a US military failure but the corrosiveness and shortsightedness of America’s own political debate. It is a blow the United States might have avoided, but should not take without a response. Simply put, it is time to sanction Pakistan.
Simply put, if Pakistan had not taken the decision to support, co-opt, and control the Taliban, Afghanistan would never be in such a dire situation. The majority of Taliban car bombs and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) use precursor chemicals that come from two fertilizer plants in Pakistan. While conducting research for a history of US diplomacy with rogue regimes and terror groups, I interviewed a number of Pakistani officials about the Taliban. One former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency acknowledged to me over tea in the Islamabad Club that Pakistan was playing both sides of the issue—supporting the Taliban insurgency while then charging the United States extortionate fees so that the Pentagon could resupply its forces. From the ISI’s standpoint, it was like hitting the jackpot. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States has given Pakistan almost $23 billion in security assistance and Coalition Support Funds.
Pakistan remains jihad central. It sustained the Taliban and sheltered Usama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, a town that is Pakistan’s equivalent of West Point. Pakistan also sheltered 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Shaikh Muhammad, before his 2003 capture. The United Nations believes Bin Laden’s successor Ayman al-Zawahiri lives under Pakistani protection. The current Taliban assault did not materialize out of thin air, but rather is a sign of deception: Pakistani officials deceived their American counterparts they were facilitating peace talks while in reality they were preparing the Taliban to take over Afghanistan.
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Here is an idea, carpet bomb the poppy fields then leave ...
“America Must Punish Pakistan For Its Role.”
OH Yeah! That’s the ticket!!!
No. America must punish the AMERICANS who let this happen. From George duh-bya Moron to Cheney, Wolfoshitz, to obama, to biden, to the pentagon staff and commanders (including trump appointees) and defense contractors/civilian grifters who got in on the action. Tying the hands of our best and brightest soldiers and tossing them into a wood chipper. For what?
"Let's You and Him fight" is the oldest game on the block.
Going into Afghanistan was like stepping on a rake. The inevitable blow of defeat was self-administered.
Another Rubin, pushing for more wars.
It would be the next logical Muslim country to go to war with and spend another 20 years in.
Do we really need another war in a hellhole country? Let’s put the money into our own country for a change.
Profit...
NO....we must blame BIDEN ADMIN and the EVIL people that voted for him!
I worry about LYNDA! He/She has MORE than 2 FACES!
As long as we don't call it "war". Just, you know, a humanitarian police action, with bombs and boots on the ground, and body bags...
Afghanistan Is in Freefall. America Must Punish Pakistan For Its Role.
What!? Like we punished Imran Awan? What the hell are these people smoking?
Why? Let the stink-holes sit in their own filth. Do not play policeman with the blood of our youth.
My comment was made tongue-in-cheek but in fairness to you and to the others who didn’t pick up on it, it was only a very brief sentence so the misunderstanding is my fault (alone).
Nah, we’re all spoiling for a fracas. ;-D Humor has been severely damaged by all of the outlandish crap seen in everyday news.
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