Pakistan's parliament condemns bin Laden raid

[Anthony W.]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Is it your position that the Old Testament has absolutely no role in christanity?

No - but the New Testament does take precedence

[MH]

Originally Posted by Anthony W.

No - but the New Testament does take precedence

Its Taliban thread.
The religious one is next door.

[Anthony W.]

Originally Posted by MH

Its Taliban thread.
The religious one is next door.

Memory = jogged

My final point was going to be that if a country is ruled by theocracy of one of the violent sects mentioned, we are thusly at war with them by default.

[Bakkels]

Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427

I think once we bring in the SEALs we are basically giving diplomacy the middle finger.

Pakistan should just let it go. We got 'im. We left. Done deal.

EDIT: Loving the fact my opinion gets its own page.

Well I can't disagree with that, but I can also completely understand the point of the Pakistani government. It completely makes sense.
Consider something like this happening in your country. You'd be all 'Wtf? they just dropped some soldiers in our country?' So the Pakistani government has to hold up face to their people. (Is that an expression? anyway, you know what I mean)

My guess is the White House have (probably a couple of hours before) informed the Pakistani government of what they were about to do.
Pakistan let the US go ahead, and gets rid of Bin Laden (it's also a load off their chest), and afterwards they get the opportunity to 'struggle' a little, because diplomatically it's not entirely correct.
But this way some more Islamic groups (read: votes) wouldn't be too pissed off. It's politics. The rules of the game are the same all over the world

[MH]

I'm not sure about the warning but the rest is probably partly true.
Particularly the reason behind the complaining.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Anthony W.

No - but the New Testament does take precedence

Originally Posted by MH

Its Taliban thread.
The religious one is next door.

you are right, perhaps if there is interest we can have an "Old Testament. applicable or not" thread. In any case this question should not hijack this thread.