I know this guy has his own agenda and anything he says is suspect, but consider this thought experiment:
You go back to Jan 31, 1981, in a time machine, kidnap Reagan from his bedroom in the middle of the night, bring him back to now, bring him up to date on recent history and the current situation (leaving out the details of his own life, death and actions), and then take him back to his same bedroom, the same night.
What would he do? I'm not writing a science fiction story here, just a thought experiment.
What would Reagan do if he knew then what we know now?
I don't know the answer to the question but I'm sure one possibility would be: let the fight in Afghanistan drag on, without any US participation.
Another possibility: help the Russians.
I didn't know Mushariff did stand up comedy!
What other talents does he hide?
Pakistan was born from its own intolerance and has been a terror state for all of its life.
Who does he think he's kidding?
Maybe his countries support of the taliban and his security forces training and supporting terrori9sts have a loyt to do with it.
Bump
Cough,cough,bullsh!t,cough,cough
The entire world of islam is solely responsible for terrorist, and only the entire world of islam can stop it. No one else can stop it but islam.
History buffs, please help. Is he laying this at Carter's feet?
I always thought Pakistan was created to separate the terrorists from India.
Will there be a time when we take out Pak's nukes and let India have at them?
“We launched a jihad, brought in mujahideen from all over the Muslim world, the US and the West…We armed the Taliban and sent them in; we did it together. In 1989 everyone left Pakistan with 30,000 armed mujahideen who were there, and the Taliban who were there,” he said, adding that Pakistan had “paid a big price for being part of the coalition that fought the Soviet Union.”
And how does that explain Pakistani schools that end up turning British Muslims into terrorists?
So how come it's the West that is to blame when it was the Soviet Union that destabilzed everything?
Musharraf is lying through his teeth (a common Pakistani trait). Much of the impetus given to fanatical Islam began when General Muhammad Zia al-Haq led a military coup that threw out the Bhutto government in 1977. He filled the military with Islamists, funded thousands of Islamist madrassas, and allowed the schools to teach military training. Within a year of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, Al-Haq was working with Saudi Arabia to send thousands of Afghan-Arabs to fight in Afghanistan; he allowed more than 100,000 Pakistani jihadists to do likewise. He introduced terrorism into Kashmir and gave the military assignment to -- you guessed it -- Musharraf who had joined the army in 1964 and served with no particular distinction until being picked by Al-Haq to raise hell with India. Al Haq was responsible for arming the Hizb-e Islam and set up a likeminded Islamist movement in the Harakat al-Jihadi Islami which Musharraf helped train. The USA did not really jump into this fray until Reagan was elected and in 1983, at CIA's Casey prompting began to fund the mujahideen. After that, the CIA served as paymaster, not drill sergeant for the anti-Soviet affair. The training of mujahideen who later joined the Al Qaeda was a Pakistani affair, of which Musharraf is perfectly aware. This self-serving bit of twaddle is what one can expect of a South Asian Muslim leader.
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The past is the past. Pakistan is the problem today.