Posted on 04/22/2009 4:05:06 PM PDT by Velveeta
As insurgents close in on Islamabad, The Daily Beast’s Gerald Posner reports that Taliban forces are on the verge of seizing Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal—which has the capability to hit India, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
This morning Taliban units took control of the Buner region of Pakistan, bringing their burgeoning insurgency within 60 miles of the capital city of Islamabad. The government called the advance a breach of a recently-signed peace agreement. But what did they expect? Any store owner who has ever faced ever-increasing protection payments to local gangsters could have told the Pakistanis that their recent string of capitulations to the Taliban—striking peace deals and ceding territory—was doomed to failure.
You think the stock market looks bad over the last two years? Let a Taliban spokesman announce that Mullah Omar has his finger on the Islamic Bomb.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Posner’s analysis.
ZERO is going to send his Sec of State right out on the case. ..
After all, two brain dead idiots has got to be better than one.
One of my professors—he teaches “Current Issues in the Middle East—is from Afghanistan, and he has said for 15 years that Pakistan is the most dangerous country on the planet.
He’s 100% right.
But could a community organizer tell you that?
Obama, white courtesy phone, asshat!
OPINION:
So it seems.
We need to send Secretary of State Clinton over there to begin talks. Dialogue is where it’s at!
Wait ‘till the Taliban gets a load of our feisty secretary of state.
>>>> he has said for 15 years that Pakistan is the most dangerous country on the planet. <<<<<<
I’ve been saying that since BCCI.
And the nukes.
And the heroin.
even worse, F’n Kerry was there just a couple weeks ago.
“But could a community organizer tell you that? “
Obama will organize a bake sale and a sit in, to deal with this problem.
And in a carbon neutral manner.
But Kerry is in a power play with Obama's judgement and said that the Obama Admin was basically clueless about the real situation over there. It was in a article posted here at FR. I loved it!
Perhaps Barry will apologize to the Taliban and make everything all better. /sarc
He is 100% right.
The sad part is that Zero thinks Paahhkeetahaan is a great place to vacation...
Well, pay-to-play is the Chicago way.
Feels like things are spiraling out of control quickly.
I really dislike Kerry and it goes back to when he was AG of Massachusetts and I knew some of his relatives who also didn’t like him.
So it pains me to say this.
He has been right about the sleaziness of Pakistan for 20 years (he chaired the BCCI Congressional investigation, which really was the only one ever done).
LOL, ok I did just get a mental image of SOS Clinton trying to talk to the Taliban.
OPINION:
Yes. In the simplest of terms, it goes back to that adage, “You are as weak as your weakest link.”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.