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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

They really are ugly people. Could that be why they are angry at everybody and ready to blow themselves into bits?


9 posted on 07/06/2007 9:42:01 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Expulsion. An idea whose time has come.)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

A Civil War No One Wants (Pakistan)
Strategypage ^ | 7/3/07

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860193/posts

Pakistan is facing a civil war between the military (representing about ten percent of the population), the Islamic militants (about 30 percent) and the secular political parties (60 percent). The military groups are the most disciplined, and are well funded by a military business empire (an outgrowth of military foundations established to provide pensions and such for veterans). The Islamic militants are the most poor and ill educated, with most of their supporters in the tribal areas. The political parties are crippled by partisanship and corruption, but are currently more united and focused by a desire to avoid a religious dictatorship, or a military one. The Islamic militants are trying to use terror to take over. The political parties use large demonstrations and strikes. The military has police and troops. No one wants a civil war, but everyone wants to run the country.

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35 posted on 07/07/2007 4:53:35 PM PDT by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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