<< PESHAWAR–Those who invaded Iraq claiming it had weapons of mass destruction and have been blaming Iran and Syria for the murderous mess in Iraq, are also THE SAME PEOPLE NOW BLAMING Pakistan for the mess in Afghanistan.
They say Pakistan is aiding and abetting the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Maybe it is. But U.S. President George W. Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have offered little or no proof. >>
More to the point, in relentless, continuing 'news' and editorial articles, the TIMES and POST push and demand that the BUSH-CHENEY White House be given a BLANK CHECK for prosecuting the "war on terror" however they see fit.. including an ILLEGAL INVASION of Iraq (then an almost disarmed country in terms of fielding an army capable of attacking any neighboring countries), TORTURE, MASSIVE SPYING on American citizens, and a continuing effort to put TAX CUTS FOR BILLIONAIRES ahead of the welfare (much less competent leadership) of US troops and forces in the field.
Thus the POST and NY TIMES have ENCOURAGED AL QAIDA in Iraq, ENABLED Al Qaida in Afghanistan, and greatly weakened America's ability to form alliances and a coordinated, world-wide, law-enforcement (as opposed to military) effort to reduce future terror attacks... while granting a "TERRORISTS SHOT WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE!" blank immunity for the Bush-Cheney administration's serial failures and criminal conduct.
[note: "Terrorists shot while trying to escape!" was standard press coverage in Nazi Germany in 1941 and 1942 of the round-up and mass execution of entire villages (most often Jewish) in German occupied Eastern Europe and Russia during the early years of the German invasion of Russia during WWII.]
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Pakistan fed up with U.S. and allies on Afghanistan
Pakistan tired of hearing it's not doing enough on Taliban and Al Qaeda, says Haroon Siddiqui
Feb 25, 2007
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/185202
PESHAWAR–Those who invaded Iraq claiming it had weapons of mass destruction and have been blaming Iran and Syria for the murderous mess in Iraq, are also the same people now blaming Pakistan for the mess in Afghanistan.
They say Pakistan is aiding and abetting the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Maybe it is. But U.S. President George W. Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have offered little or no proof.
THE AMERICAN MEDIA [as always, led the the NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST] are running a parallel campaign, hurling a more serious allegation, that the Pakistan army is extending logistical help to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Most such stories are based on unnamed sources.
The New York Times, which in the pre-Iraq war days carried phony WMD stories, is back practising the same sort of discredited journalism.
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Note: The Pakistan ISI (secret police) was there at the CREATION of what would become the Taliban during the Mujahadeen "Freedom Fighter" resistance to the Communist Red Army (Russian/Soviet) invasion of Afghanistan in 1980. After the retreat of the Red Army from Afghanistan, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Pakistan's ISI continued to play a leading role in funding the Taliban, which used bin Laden's Arab al Qaida volunteers as SHOCK TROOPS to; a.) keep local Pushtuns in the Taliban in line; and b.) as shock troops in battles against the Northern Alliance and other opponents, the Al Qaida volunteers would be held in reserves as battle lines became established, and then bin Laden's men would be directed to the point in the battle that would overwhelm the opposition. From 1980 on, and during the Soviet invasion with US blessings, it was SAUDI BILLIONS that funded the Muhahadeen and Pakistan support for the Afghan resistance - with considerable supplies donated by communist China, as well. Pakistan was the trans-shipment point (supply line) for the equipment of war, and Saudi Arabia and other Arab states the financiers.
9-11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan not-with-standing, that is STILL the strategic picture in Afghanistan to this day... The Pakistanis are allied with their traditional Sunni allies, the PUSHTUNS, and the most cohesive and organized group within the Pushtun tribe is the Taliban. (Much as the local Patriot militias carried the American revolution at Lexinton and Concord and dozens of other battles, especially in the South.)
The NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINTON POST are probably correct: MILLIONS to finance the Taliban - AND AL QAIDA - _ARE_ flowing through Pakistan. Yet the Post and Times FAIL, REFUSE TO cover the larger picture: namely SAUDI/ARAB SUPPORT for the SUNNI INSURGENTS in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Like the Bush-Cheney administration, the TIMES and POST prefer BOMBS and WARS to an informed public and a rational prosecution of "the war on Terror," and thus end up sounding like the pre-WWII Nazis justifying the invasions of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia "in defense of the homeland."
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