Contradictions point towards a crunch [Pakistan]

Dawn ^ | Wednesday, 22 Apr, 2009 | Mahir Ali

[happygrl]

Pakistan is falling apart: Embassies are urged to consolidate within a defensible zone.

[farlander]

Lovely. And we have the Coward-Appeaser-in-Chief in the White House.

[Cheburashka]

Pakistan is falling apart: Embassies are urged to consolidate within a defensible zone.

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They should be evacuating women, children and non-vital personnel. This baby's gonna blow.

[happygrl]

Well it's Friday.

What do you bet that 0bama is busy making weekend plans (that involve AF One) with Michelle ?

[Cheburashka]

Well it's Friday.

What do you bet that 0bama is busy making weekend plans (that involve AF One) with Michelle ?

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Sucker bet if I ever heard of one.

[PapaBear3625]

They should be evacuating women, children and non-vital personnel. This baby's gonna blow.

They should get everybody out now, because the end-game will play out very quickly.

There will be no "defensible zone" if the Taliban get to the capital. They will launch mortar and rocket attacks on any such "zone". And anybody who waits until the last minute will experience a scene like the fall of Saigon.

[Mariner]

IF Pakistan falls to the Taliban (assuming there will not be a pro-Western coup), then civilization has no choice but a preemptive nuclear strike and invasion.

Anything less will ensure the destruction of the West and the assimilation of all of Western Asia under Al Queda/Taliban.

It's an existential threat to at least 30 countries near-term, and the rest of civilization in the long-term.

[happygrl]

Things could move very quickly, as you've stated.

I wonder how Nukes under Taliban control would factor into Israeli plans for Iran ?

[swarthyguy]

A joint IsraeliIranianIndoUS campaign against Pakistan?

After all the Iranians hate the Talibs who slaughtered dozens of their diplomats and dignitiaries back when.....

[happygrl]

A joint IsraeliIranianIndoUS campaign against Pakistan?

My head is exploding!

Talk about thinking outside the box!

Strikes me as similar to our strategy during WWII, and pays repect to the Middle Eastern adage: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[swarthyguy]

Well, and perhaps the Chinese can help in stopgapping the Karokaram highway to ensure no jihadis escape into Xinjiang....

[swarthyguy]

>>My head is exploding!

Save that for the jihadis, I know you haven’t turned into bomb and burka wearing babe....

[jonascord]

Sir Neville Henderson, the British Ambassador to Germany, flew from London to Berlin this afternoon with Britain's reply to Hitler's message of 25 August.
In this Hitler had outlined his demands for an immediate settlement to the question of the Free City of Danzig and the Polish corridor, and his horror at the thought of a war between Germany and Britain. (28 AUGEST, 1939)

Three days before Case White, the invasion of Poland... And our Dear Leader is out of town for the weekend...

[happygrl]

Well, and perhaps the Chinese can help in stopgapping the Karokaram highway to ensure no jihadis escape into Xinjiang....

Any other wannabe world power that you think should get involved ?

This would be an opportunity to try out all their "toys."

[happygrl]

Save that for the jihadis, I know you haven’t turned into bomb and burka wearing babe....

No, but I might consider wearing one and carrying a shiv...

[happygrl]

“Three days before Case White, the invasion of Poland... And our Dear Leader is out of town for the weekend...”

So you think Pakistan is doing a head fake ?

Oh, I agree, our enemies are watching 0bama closely and know his predeliction for parties on Wednesday night and out-of-town weekend dates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Wei%C3%9F_(1939)

[SunkenCiv]

Analysis: Pakistan Flaw Threatens US Afghan Plan [0’s War Plans Crumble]
NYTimes | April 24, 2009
Posted on 04/24/2009 1:04:32 PM PDT by Steelfish
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237145/posts

Pakistani Taliban confound Obama, Clinton
UPI | 4/24/09 | Marty Seff
Posted on 04/24/2009 3:50:23 PM PDT by pissant
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237259/posts

Nuclear fears prompt Pakistan to prepare attack on Taleban
Times Online | April 25, 2009 | Zahid Hussain
Posted on 04/24/2009 4:35:43 PM PDT by AngieGal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237302/posts

Experts Predict Pakistan’s Collapse
McClatchy Newspapers | week of April 23, 2009 | JONATHAN S. LANDAY
Posted on 04/24/2009 4:40:48 PM PDT by lewisglad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237305/posts

[jonascord]

I think our resident commie is taking Air Force 1 to somewhere else, just because he won, and will be totally bemused that the Taliban will have become a nuclear power.

What's worse, I don't think he cares.

[happygrl]

What's worse, I don't think he cares.

His name is Hussein;-)

[AdmSmith]

The probability of that is small, but not zero. The result could be a divided Pakistan along ethnic lines.