[neverdem]

Obama can talk all he wants. This is a doozy of a dilemma. Hitch didn't mention the Pathan, aka Pushtu, tribe that straddles the border, nor our flaky supply lines to Afghanistan.

[rvoitier]

Love to *listen* to Hitchens but Bush has kicked out Musharaf because he's been using our billionS to help the Taliban and now has said screw your soveriegnty by going after al qeada without their permission.

That's not facing Pakistan, Chris?

[kaehurowing]

Is he going to do this before or after he cures cancer?

[FormerACLUmember]

Barack Hussein could not competently deal with an incontinent puppy.

Christopher Hitchens is wrong about God (I just read his insufferable book God is not Great), and he is wrong about that bizarre self-appointed God, Obama.

[tomkat]

.. And Barack Obama seems to be the only candidate willing to face it.

[econjack]

American liberals can't quite face the fact that if their man does win in November, and if he has meant a single serious word he's ever said, it means more war, and more bitter and protracted war at that—not less.

Interesting thought to pass around.

[mojito]

Does Hitchens really believe that Obama will commit the US to war against Pakistan?

I doubt it.

[quadrant]

Even if Pakistan were a “problem”, neither Barry nor anyone else can “solve” it. The internal situation in Pakistan - notably repression by the central government and lack of authority over many parts of the country - are not amenable to “corrective” measures by anyone outside the country. All external pressure aimed at changing the nature society in Pakistan is bound to be resented and ultimately counter-
productive. Yet people such as Barry will blithely brag that he or she can change the nature of a traditional and tribal society. Perhaps his years as a community organizer give him confidence that he can succeed where others have failed, but I wouldn't bet on it. He is little more than another in a long line of foolish academics who fantasize about their abilities at social engineering.

[hosepipe]

Who in their right mind would want Barry Obama as president when the Nukes start going off in America.. Would be like having Richard Simmons in a Turkey Suit as your brain surgeon..

[kenavi]

We don’t have a strategic interest in Afghanistan, neither that country nor anyone in it is a threat to us. We have a moral obligation to try to help the Afghani people who want it, by securing certain areas until they can defend themselves.

[PC99]

Pakistan is the core problem - the most dangerous country on earth. Either Obama or McCain will have their hands full with it.

[NonValueAdded]

The Nazi’s, Manuel, and Sybil did not have nuclear weapons; the Paki’s do. We don’t the O-child playing the role of the major (or Wesley).<{>I certainly hope there is one heck of a lot more going on between the US and the various pieces / parts of Pakistan than we hear about in the press. This wouldn’t be the first time a RAT was talking out of their posterior knowing the classified stuff while the administration appropriately keeps their mouth shut rather than submarine the policy by saying, “look, you blithering idiot, you know damned well that ...”

[dforest]

Obama, a bloody war monger, no?

[TigersEye]

American liberals can't quite face the fact that if their man does win in November, and if he has meant a single serious word he's ever said, it means more war, and more bitter and protracted war at that—not less.

I think they feel sure he didn't mean a word of it.

If by some amazing twist of fate he was serious it would be a disaster. I wouldn't trust him to make a sound decision on which side of a waffle to butter.

[Wuli]

EVERYONE recognizes the “Pakistan” problem, in regard to the Taliban crisis in Afghanistan. The author is apparently NOT listening to what anyone, besides Obama, is saying.

What EVERYONE BUT Obama IS recognizing is:

1. Pakistan is not Iraq.
2. Pakistan HAS nuclear weapons.
3. A destabilized Pakistan could descend into civil war.
4. The U.S. has been trying, and must continue to try to get Pakistan’s help without tripping that wire.

Obama is not smarter on Pakistan. He’s just trying to puff his chest out on the issue so he looks more like what he is not - strong on defense.

[Cindy]

THREATS WATCH.org: "PAWNS AND POLITICS" by Steve Schippert (September 15, 2008, 10:15 am)

Video: "Devastating Video, Obama Talks About Job Ayers Gave Him" (Added September 14, 2008)

AMERICAN THINKER - blog: "OBAMA COVERS HIS TRACKS" by Ed Lasky (September 11, 2008)

[Post no. 7] - ARCHIVES - Topic: BIDEN & OBAMA (aka B & O) (September 13, 2008 -- Click Here.)

[LtKerst]

what a crock! We have been hitting them across the border with Predator Missles, and Pakistan just attacked them and killed 100 in 3 days of fierce fighting!!

this is just another Puff piece for Obama....and it is a LIE.

[American in Israel]

Good, Give Barry Obama a gun and a plane ticket and let him face the war.

[SunkenCiv]

The truth is that the Taliban, and its al-Qaida guests, were originally imposed on Afghanistan from without as a projection of Pakistani state power. (Along with Pakistan, only Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ever recognized the Taliban as the legal government in Kabul.) Important circles in Pakistan have never given up the aspiration to run Afghanistan as a client or dependent or proxy state, and this colonial mindset is especially well-entrenched among senior army officers and in the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI.

Impossible! Everyone knows it was the CIA that backed the Taliban!!! ;') Thanks neverdem.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I think he’s facing toward Mecca, actually.