Skybird
04-08-09, 01:44 PM
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-618170,00.html
The United States is paying increasing attention to Pakistan in its bid to bring stability to Afghanistan, amid fears that the nuclear state could collapse. Rival Islamic militant groups are joining forces to make their country into a stronghold -- and are receiving support from Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency.
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The military avoids serious confrontation with the extremists. Many officers still do not see the Taliban as their enemy. Pakistan's true enemy, in their view, is India, the country from which Pakistan once seceded and with which it has since waged three wars. Quite a few officers say that the fight against terrorism in the northwestern part of the country is being forced upon them by the Americans and that they are fighting the wrong war.
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The Americans have long suspected the ISI of playing a double game. After Sept. 11, 2001, former President Pervez Musharraf willingly pursued the al-Qaida terrorists who had sought refuge in the border region and received billions in military aid in return. At the same time, however, he spared the Taliban leaders, allowing them to go into hiding.In a recent article in the New York Times, Obama administration officials were unusually candid in accusing the ISI of supporting the Taliban in its struggle against the Western alliance and the Karzai government in Kabul. That support, they said, includes ammunition and fuel, as well as the recruitment of fighters. The officials claimed that wiretapped telephone conversations prove that members of Pakistani intelligence have even given the Taliban advance warning of planned raids.
Nevertheless Pakistani officials in recent days demanded America to put trust into Pakistan. And the Obama administration indicated it wants to pump even more money into Pakistan, which I consider to be completely disconnected from reality, and totally insane. What are these minds thinking? That oney will not only be wasted - it will end in the wrong hands, being used against America, the West and Western soldiers on the ground.
One weakness of Obama I have identified in the recent three months: he is a hopeless idealist, very much disconnected from reality and believing in the good and reasonable of mankind, no matter it'S cultural background and educational mindset, and he wants America to be evberverybody's darling, which he seems to mistake with restoring American credibility that got raped and devastated under Bush, setting up challenges only where he does not fear serious retaliation in deeds and violence, for example his affront to the EU when - like Bush - publicly expressing support for Turkish EU membership and calling turkey a part of European culture, which is totally absurd (the ethnic Turk men come from the northern territories of today'S Iran and Afghanistan, there language shares no similiarity at all with any european language, for example). Which in itself is another major folly of his. His teeth-hurting candy-sweet attempt to get pally with Turkey was disgraceful, in my opinion, not to mention the obvious historical lies in his compliments.
The United States is paying increasing attention to Pakistan in its bid to bring stability to Afghanistan, amid fears that the nuclear state could collapse. Rival Islamic militant groups are joining forces to make their country into a stronghold -- and are receiving support from Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency.
(...)
The military avoids serious confrontation with the extremists. Many officers still do not see the Taliban as their enemy. Pakistan's true enemy, in their view, is India, the country from which Pakistan once seceded and with which it has since waged three wars. Quite a few officers say that the fight against terrorism in the northwestern part of the country is being forced upon them by the Americans and that they are fighting the wrong war.
(...)
The Americans have long suspected the ISI of playing a double game. After Sept. 11, 2001, former President Pervez Musharraf willingly pursued the al-Qaida terrorists who had sought refuge in the border region and received billions in military aid in return. At the same time, however, he spared the Taliban leaders, allowing them to go into hiding.In a recent article in the New York Times, Obama administration officials were unusually candid in accusing the ISI of supporting the Taliban in its struggle against the Western alliance and the Karzai government in Kabul. That support, they said, includes ammunition and fuel, as well as the recruitment of fighters. The officials claimed that wiretapped telephone conversations prove that members of Pakistani intelligence have even given the Taliban advance warning of planned raids.
Nevertheless Pakistani officials in recent days demanded America to put trust into Pakistan. And the Obama administration indicated it wants to pump even more money into Pakistan, which I consider to be completely disconnected from reality, and totally insane. What are these minds thinking? That oney will not only be wasted - it will end in the wrong hands, being used against America, the West and Western soldiers on the ground.
One weakness of Obama I have identified in the recent three months: he is a hopeless idealist, very much disconnected from reality and believing in the good and reasonable of mankind, no matter it'S cultural background and educational mindset, and he wants America to be evberverybody's darling, which he seems to mistake with restoring American credibility that got raped and devastated under Bush, setting up challenges only where he does not fear serious retaliation in deeds and violence, for example his affront to the EU when - like Bush - publicly expressing support for Turkish EU membership and calling turkey a part of European culture, which is totally absurd (the ethnic Turk men come from the northern territories of today'S Iran and Afghanistan, there language shares no similiarity at all with any european language, for example). Which in itself is another major folly of his. His teeth-hurting candy-sweet attempt to get pally with Turkey was disgraceful, in my opinion, not to mention the obvious historical lies in his compliments.