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To: RMF who wrote (35834)	6/15/2009 1:20:46 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 71588

It was always critically important that we get Pakistan to oppose (not just pretend to oppose, give us a song-and-dance while taking our foreign aid and secretly still protecting the Taliban...) the Taliban. To get them to realize that the internal threat from the fundamentalists they have nurtured all these decades is greater and more dire to them then the Indian threat is. Bush as our policy frozen into a kind of pretend Potemkin Village in the Af-Pak theater for many years now, where he pretended that the dictator was helping us 'clamp down on the radicals', while he kept our attention focused far to the West on Iraq.... But that imaginary reality in Af-Pak represented a slow and almost certain defeat for American and Democratic interests... and it represented a slow but sure rise in power and influence for al Qaeda and similar Whabbist influenced terrorist organizations. It is a good think that the scales are falling from the eyes.