Unseen Enemy

IBD Editorials ^ | March 27, 2009

[Kaslin]

War On Terror: Besides sending more troops to Afghanistan, President Obama plans to send billions more in aid to Pakistan, despite evidence that our money is used to kill troops in Afghanistan.

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The plan to reward Islamabad with another $15 billion comes as stunning new U.S. intelligence — gathered from electronic surveillance and trusted informants — reveals Pakistan's spy service has been supporting the Taliban.

And they've been doing it with our intelligence, our weapons and our money. In effect, we are funding the Taliban.

Pakistan's secret war has pushed violence in Afghanistan to its highest level since U.S.-led forces invaded in 2001. U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan rose 35% in 2008.

Why would Pakistan's military intelligence destabilize the Afghan government? To limit archenemy India's influence next door. It's now confirmed that the Taliban bombed the Indian Embassy in Kabul with help from Pakistani intelligence, the ISI.

The ISI has even shared intelligence with Lashkar-e-Taiba, the al-Qaida subcontractor that recently massacred 160 people in Mumbai. It's no coincidence that Indian trains and commercial centers and parliament buildings have been attacked since we drove the Taliban out of Afghanistan.

Also confirmed in a detailed New York Times piece quoting several U.S. officials:

[mathurine]

Obama’s been to Pakistan when he was nobody of note, and he knows at least generally about the way it is there. Obama is just an Osama hiding in plain sight.

[Kandy Atz]

Taking a page from history, maybe the US and India should “Poland” Pakistan.

OK maybe bad analogy.

I have never really trusted the Pakistanis. They are second on my list of countries that need some serious recalibration behind Iran.

[gargoyle]

...Should Pakistan be our next battle for IAI support of terrorists? What about Iran? can we fight in two countries without support of another UN mandate. Diplomacy seems to be out of the question, and sanctions aren’t effective. I would imagine that Syria is on your list. Do we have the troops, supplies, and the will of the nation to keep at this???