Posted on 09/02/2013 4:42:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Exactly. The article is juvenile.
Ironically, he would deserve it if he would only nuke the pakis out of existence.
There is no calculus by which a nation like Pakistan would ever APPROVE or ENDORSE anything the USA does. None. You could put the sainted Ron Paul in charge of EVERYTHING for the next 100 years and Pakistan would still DESPISE the USA.
If currying the favor off Pakistan is somehow the end product of the American experiment in government than it might have never been tried in the first place.
Pakistan. Good grief.
The U.S. needs stay out of their cesspools...
American policy should be something like this: stay away from us - stay away from Israel - or we'll nuke you. Then walk away... let Allah sort them out - We have no dog in any of their numerous fights.
Search for “Bedaber Uprising”. It was in April 1985 when a group of Soviet and Afghan Army POWs captured a Pakistani army base. They have repelled numerous attempts to retake the base demanding to bring a Russian ambassador to the scene. At the end Pakis destroyed the base along with the POWs, Soviets learnt about this event and demanded explanation. Pakies have told mind your business and day later tested their F-16 with latest Sidewinder on a Soviet aircraft pounding ragheads who smuggled ammo from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
As a result Soviets unleashed an unprecedented campaign of sabotage and assassinations against the Pakis killing over 200 officials involved in training of Afghan rebels in a next three years. It is believed has been culminated in 1988 with killing of president Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and the whole Pakistan’s military command in a plane crash.
I don’t think if Russians had a single problem with Pakistan ever since.
That is actually how you have to deal with them.
This is a Muslim country with a 96.4% population of Muslims. I would have expected a much higher figure. Frankly, I think we are doing quite well to have that low a number.
The big question is now that America is a militarized and para-militarized Police-Intelligence-Military Complex, how do we return it to common sense and efficiency?
1) To start with, we have 16 major intelligence agencies in the US, and countless para-government and commercial organization also functioning as an intrusive data gathering and mining operation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_intelligence_community
Clearly this needs to be streamlined, and to have clear parameters created as to who, when, and most importantly why they are to spy. Right now they operate with an open ended, uncontrolled, technology driven, unimportant minutiae of honest citizen approach, that is utterly wasteful and accomplishes nothing.
2) The US also has 100+ federal police agencies, and has gone so far as to authorize non-police agencies to arm themselves, train SWAT teams, and carry out police functions. Likewise, they give away vast amounts of military and communications equipment to every state and local police agency they can; while encouraging them to become paramilitaries instead of police.
While the vast majority of these police agencies can be consolidated, the demilitarization of state and local police needs to be done at the state level. To start with, removing and prohibiting the use of military weapons from local police departments; and giving such equipment to either county Sheriffs or the state police.
3) A federal act to recognize that there are times and places in which security profiling of people by their nation of origin, organizational membership, philosophy and religion are legitimate. There is no logical reason to insist on “fairness”, the use of extra security measures against all, when only a limited number of people should be regarded with enhanced security. Note, I did not say persecution. But, for example, if someone is a Muslim, for that reason alone they deserve extra scrutiny, and this is in no way unfair at this time.
4) While a border fence with Mexico is a grand idea which should be erected as soon as possible; non-Mexican foreign nationals require a different approach altogether, but one that has a remarkable inexpensive and effective approach.
A bounty paid to Mexican citizens, for information leading to the arrest and detention of non-Mexicans attempting to illegally enter the US. With the direct payment of between $100-$5000 paid directly and discreetly to Mexican citizens, our southern border would be airtight to non-Mexicans. Even if they paid smugglers a lot of money, the smugglers would still be inclined to inform on them for even more money.
Relatively speaking, this idea could be implemented within a few weeks, mostly time spent in publicizing it in Mexico, and would probably cost far less than $100,000 a year; so much so that even a private citizen could fund it.
However, it could only work if ICE completely discontinued its “catch and release” program for non-Mexican foreigners who had entered the US illegally. Right now, if an Iranian al-Quds Colonel was caught entering the US, they might very well let him go, on his assurance that he would show up to a US customs hearing scheduled some months in the future.
Which is intolerable to our national security.
The guy sure sounds like one of his followers.
Dubya should have hit Pakistan after Afghanistan instead of getting rid of the secular evil Saddam
paki Mozzies are worse. destroy Pakiland...
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