[maine-iac7]

you write: “Besides a friendlier regime in Pakistan, the Taliban benefit from a recent influx of foreign jihadis fleeing the rout of terrorist forces in Iraq. It is likely as well that the latter have brought their financial and western ideological and propaganda support with them.”

These foreign jihadis are also wreaking havoc in Pakistan - unfortunately, the Pakis have a defeatist attitude that prevents them going after the talies and their foreign allies, except in a Clintonesque way - now and again bombing some empty buildings and then backing off for ‘peace talks.’

Time for Kazai to give the word - he threatened to go after the talies across the border = as is his right, since they are killing his people. It would be best if he gave the order to go - with us ‘following’ from above - but if he won't - well, it's past time anyway - let's git ‘er done.

For the mixed bag of feelings in Pakistan, this is an interesting piece -

http://pakobserver.net/Editorial02.asp

[Westbrook]

> http://pakobserver.net/Editorial02.asp

I wouldn’t call that piece a “mixed bag of feelings”.

It’s a direct propaganda piece just like the twaddle spewed by the Imperial Japs, the Nazis, the KGB, Mao Zedung’s Red Guard, and the ghost writers for Ho Chi Minh and Kim Jung-Il.

Given the style, the verbiage, the slant, the spin, it could have been written by the same group of twits.

Utterly juvenile.