Why the Obama Administration is So Worried About Pakistan
The Taliban are advancing in Pakistan and it's unclear whether the government can push them back
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Pakistani '' Nukes''
As a common Pakistani NATIONAL , i would like to add few things for the betterment of this region and as whole for the global peace..!
Who financed and give weapons to these talibans or extremeists or jihadi groups against Russian invasion...
America Itself...!!!
When Russia was beaten here Ameriicans left these people like a used ''tissue papers''
Resulting the sleaves without a master...!!
They are extremely poor people,illetrate and hv nothing to do or to earn there livlihood..!!
Resululting the hv nothing to loose but only there lives which for them is good for nothing..!!
So as Pakistan has stop doing the proxi war with INDIA in Kashmir and Punjab or even in Asaam,they INDIANS are paying back to Pakistan in the same coins ..!!
India using the money making clerics as their agents funding them,and urging them to keep fighting and destablise the Pakistan it's Nation and it's Nukes to be held in UN custody once it was declared a fail state.
Israel is on the Back of India and America is on the back of Israel,we Pakistani's hv trusy Americans since the first day this country was made an independant state in 1947 BUT regret to say the course of history proves that these americans never proved to be a good friends...!!
Not even a good foes,who hits from the front on the face,Americans stab in the back of their friends,if they are muslims,because Americans never ever has considered muslims as their friend from their heart.
Pakistan Existension threat
Way back in 2007 primary then Sen. Obama was asked the greatest foreign threat to America in a debate with Hilary, and he immediately said Pakistan. Unlike Iran which is still hoping to develop nuclear weapons, Pakistan already had the nukes but Bush Co. preferred bribing General Musharaff with billions that never went to fight the Taliban.
President Obama understands this threat more than anyone, it didn't just happen, its the result of decades of corruption and unconditional American dollars. Rattling about Iran does nothing, dealing with Pakistan is what America needs to face up to
Peace Love and Happiness
I'm sure these Taliban boys are just nice fellows who are misunderstood. We should try and understand what we Americans have done to offend them and then approach them with an outstreatched hand instead of a fist. We must talk to the inner child in each and every one of them. Evil Mr. Bush should have at least apologized to them after 9/11. Please let them go back to repressing women, destroying ancient pre-Islamic heritage sites, disallowing kite flying (under penalty of death), cutting off heads, stoning women to death, eliminating education, executing parents in front of children, massacring entire villages, raping women and children (oops that was the UN too), using human shields, savagely beating infants, burning people alive as punishment, and various other traditional pastimes and cultural rituals. We need to live and let live; focus on our own shortcomings; and allow others, like these poor misunderstood Taliban boys, to follow their hearts without our pesky interference. Only then will there be peace in the world.
The hasty military reaction can only alienate people
There are several false assumptions we are pondering with in media these days. The Obama administration should be worried but work with Pakistan not force them to do what is detrimental to their national interest. People of the country knows better to handle their problems than some self proclaimed experts on the region.
1)The most difficult terrain of Northern Pakistan can not be measured by distance on the map. The sixty miles in that terrain may become six hundred miles logistically.
2)Taliban who took over Swat are not the part of mainstream Islamic force in Pakistan, they are isolated exploits of religio-cultural stock particular to that region. Their version of Sharia is mostly woven around their own strongly adhered cultural beliefs. Keeping women oppressed, giving girls in marriage for dowry, not marrying women out of their tribe, xenophobic hostility, are all characteristics of that region and its people.
3)Few hundred of these fighters equipped with rocked propelled grenades and sniper rifles can only cause trouble in the confines of difficult terrain, they lack the ability to come out and bring down the government. Unless Pakistani military is forced to take action and collateral damage draw sympathies of much moderate majority, an 80 to 100 million, pseudo-religious, middle and lower class mainstream Pakistanis.
4)Taliban support among mainstream Pakistani public is not high of all time, it is in fact increasingly deteriorating due to their actions in Swat. This could not have happened with any media campaign if NWFP government had not given them a chance to show their real face.
The hasty military reaction, as demanded by US and its allies in that region can only alienate people and would have severed the delicate situation of Pakistan. Fighting once had begun, could not be stopped and Pakistan would have spiral down into civil war. The media that is now asking for stiff stance from the government and military action against Taliban would have been playing different tune blaming Pakistan military of killing its own people.
The people of that region have to be empowered and motivated not armed to fight. We should not be creating illegal militias to counter illegal militias. The frontier corps should be strengthened and support from people of the region should be sought.
nuclear pakistan
If pakistan cain't stop the taliban then it is left for us. We need a strong decisive leader the likes of which aren't usually democrats. They are very weak like pakistan.









