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It is plain that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are "unindicted" members of the "axis of evil". If it is true that the Taliban is an ISI creation, it is also a Saudi one. Saudi money and Saudi agents are behind every Muslim insurgency in Asia, perhaps without exception.
And the nexus of all of the Asian Muslim insurgencies was Bin Ladin and the Afghan training camps. If all of these insurgencies were funded by the Saudis, inspired by Saudi missionaries, and trained by Bin Ladin and the ISI, then it is a reasonable conclusion that Bin Ladin was, in effect, a Saudi agent as well.
So the war on the "axis" must obviously include a response to the two unmentioned members of the axis. To some degree, that has already happened. US forces have attacked Saudi-backed Abu Sayaf in the Philippines, they have ejected the Taliban from Afghanistan and continue to kill them as they cross the border from Pakistan, they are engaged in training and assisting police and military forces all across Central Asia, and there has been a fundamental shift in our stance toward Russia and the Chechens, reversing Clinton-era sympathy for the Chechen rebellion.
In Pakistan, despite their previous alliance for the Taliban, Musharraf has given us fairly free reign as our agents enter the country to chase bandits. We have a powerful point of leverage; our relationship with India. India stays its hand toward Pakistan because the US asks her to. India is the hammer that we brandish whenever the Pakistanis get uppity; our influence in Delhi is what has allowed us to develop and exploit divisions within the Pakistani government.
But it is not enough to attack Saudi operations outside of Saudi Arabia. At some point logic requires that Riyadh itself have a day of reckoning. With the fall of Baghdad, the Saudis now stand exposed and alone, and that day of reckoning, I believe, is now. It will be done very smoothly, very much behind the scenes, because whatever dirt Saddam's files may have on US leaders will be nothing compared to what the Saudis will have in their files. But it is undeniable, I believe, that we have been engaged in attacks on Saudi operations since 9/11, a war that has been one of the most bizarre ever, in which we slaughter the low-level trigger-pullers while smiling and hugging the princes on camera who fund them.
7 posted on 08/02/2003 12:59 PM PDT by marron
Riyadh delenda est.
The Pakistani jihad factory is a direct consequence of Saudi Arabia, the host of Pakistani jihadi orgs would be all but impossible to sustain without the kind of concerted foreign backing that Pakistan has received from Saudi Arabia over the last thirty to forty years, though I suspect the spreading of Wahhabism there has been going on for much longer. One of the great ironies of the Islamist internationale is that many of principle sources of pseudo-nationalist cannon fodder (re: Kashmir) are themselves puppets of a nation that cares next to nothing about them or their fate.