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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23282)	12/9/2009 11:13:25 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

Lugar: US war strategy should focus on Pakistan (AP) – 56 minutes ago WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is questioning whether the United States is focusing on the right country in it's war against the Taliban and the al-Qaida terrorist network. Sen. Dick Lugar said Wednesday the U.S. risks spending billions of dollars fighting in strategically less important Afghanistan while militants becoming more secure in their havens across the border in Pakistan.... google.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (23282)	12/9/2009 11:17:40 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

The problem with Pakistan, part III-conclusion December 9, 9:31 AM Miami Political Buzz Examiner Glenn Osrin examiner.com One has to wonder if America's military leadership is playing with a full deck, or whether President Obama subtly telegraphed the importance of not letting Pakistan fall into militant islamist's hands by what he didn't say in his speech sending more troops to Afghanistan. For example, no mention was made of the nuclear hand-off; and Pakistan was referred to as just another imperiled part of the region, foisted into the Taliban quagmire by virtue of geography and age-long ethnic differences. Too bad it isn't that simple. Undoubtedly President Obama has shown a propensity to prefer to work diplomatic 'back channels', as evidenced by his dealings with Iran, North Korea, and Russia. His foreign policy efforts take substantive form behind the misty smoke and mirrors of measured, sane rhetoric. Thus, it comes as no surprise that within hours of his troop deployment speech on Afghanistan, it was reported that the president had also authorized an increase in Predator drone strikes and covert operations in Pakistan using the CIA. To further underscore the Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of the Pakistan military and their anti-terrorism ‘partnership' with the world, they bristle at U.S. drone attacks, arguing that such attacks kill innocent civilians, while ironically, Taliban and al Qaeda attacks in it's most populous cities don't seem to incite the same moral outrage. Not surprisingly then,the army and the ISI want America to provide billions for the war and infrastructure, yet without conditions, as though they were completely reliable. Indeed, it may be that the deployment of America's blood and treasure in Afghanistan to stabilize the region is really one way of slamming the door to the east, behind the insurgency, while cutting them off to the west with drone attacks and CIA counter-terrorism efforts designed to pinch leadership from the east in Pakistan, choking everything in the middle in a high-stakes effort to flush out al Qaeda leadership where Osama Bin Laden is rumored to be. And therein lies the rub: Pakistan's military and ISI have been alleged to know the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar for years. Thus, the U.S. is trying to stem the tide of Taliban advances in Afghanistan, while at the same time dealing with the disloyal, untrustworthy, and deeply divided four headed monster that Pakistan's military and civilian leadership is. The U.S.'s continued financial subsidies to Pakistan's circumspect efforts in the 'war on terror' amounts to nothing more than feeding sugar cubes to the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Clearly, if radical elements of Islam continue to work with the schizophrenically divided Pakistan army to undermine it's government and the efforts of the coalition forces in the region, it won't just be terrorist attacks on the United States from that part of the world that we'll be waking up to One day, the world will wake up to find itself staring down the barrel of Pakistani nukes, seized by al Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban, and aimed not only at the United States, but India, Israel, and quite possibly, the world.