Posted on 08/19/2008 9:14:46 AM PDT by Victory111
Pakistan’s Musharraf has resigned, and everyone seems happy. Pakistanis danced in the streets and fired guns in the air, and one retired soldier in Peshawar even declared: “The root cause of all problems has gone.”
Yet Pakistan’s future doesn’t look to be problem-free. Pakistan is rapidly becoming the most dangerous nation on earth – if it isn’t that already. As one senior White House advisor recently told HUMAN EVENTS editor Jed Babbin, the “safe havens” for more than one million jihad terrorists that exist in Western Pakistan constitute the most severe terrorism-related problem the world faces today.
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Can we quit sending them money now?
It is like an obscene $100 million a month . . .
Some say it pays for the whole insurgent movement there . . .
This morning I saw where the head of the Pakistan Army made a hurried and unexpected trip to Afghanistan to confer with Coalition and Afghan leaders. Wonder what that is about? They have been having some fire fights in Pakistan lately where the bad guys have been taking some casualties. Sure would like to see the Paks. chase those guys into our waiting arms.
Pakistan can kiss their new F-16s goodbye.
We have a cognitive-dissonance going on here. Some pundits are saying Musharaff’s exit rings the dinner gong for the Taliban/Al Q. but I’m reading other opinions with more first-hand knowledge (strata-sphere.com/blog) that say otherwise. It has even been posted here that the Paki army is beginning to take decisive action against the jihadis in the tribal territories at the same time that a similar Iraq-style “awakening” is going on as the tribes are getting fed up with the brutality of their “guests” and are turning on them.
I always despised Mushie as an indecisive wishy-washy Jimmy Carter in Gunga Din lacquer and a mustache, who couldn’t grow a pair and decisively deal with the jihadis even after they repeatedly tried to kill him.
I’ll admit the current cobbled-together government would not inspire confidence in most observers but don’t bet against their basic survival instinct.
Before Bhutto was assassinated, she was much more pro going after the bad guys than Musharraf. There is some suspicion that is why she was killed.
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