Saturday, 30 May 2009

• What are our leaders doing ?

  In the midst of a war on two fronts and two rogue states giving us the nuclear middle finger, Obama is lecturing an ally , Hillary is playing the global warming  (politics) game in China and Nancy Pelosi is calling the CIA liars while trying to CHA from potential prosecution being called for by some on both the left and right. How comforting.

  Our commander in chief needs to get his eye on the ball and cut out his perpetual campaign and start being President. North Korea has thumbed their nose at us and we respond by getting tough with a UN Sanction. Well that was what America voted for , a pansy, and that is what they got, a weak leader who lectures and threatens with UN Sanctions. Yeah, we saw how well that worked with another dictator.

  It is about time that he quit trying to do the job of the Supreme Court and critiquing the founders errors in crafting the Constitution, and actually perform his own job of upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States which he swore he would do. Twice. It seems like he wants to do everybody's job but his own.

  At a time when Kim has tested his nukes for the world to see and then threatened us if we try to check his outgoing shipments out, it is high time to concentrate on areas like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran. Thank God the government of Pakistan sees the urgency. 

  Pakistan

  The Taliban has taken to trying to strike terror into the Pakistan government and people by launching strikes in retaliation for the army vowing to weed them out.  But instead of striking fear in their heart it has strengthened their resolve to destroy the Taliban who took a settlement  less than 100 miles from the capital. The geopolitical situation in Pakistan should be of concern to Obama because of the suspicion that Taliban or other entities (perhaps rogue military) may try to seize nuclear weapons of the state.  Add the North Korean marketing display that their nukes work and the reality of a attack inside Pakistan to destabilize the state is a reality.

   Pakistan understands what is at stake here, and aren't dispatching their negotiators to have tea and prayers.

  Dawn reports, "

  This month, the military launched a full-scale offensive to root out the Taliban from their stronghold in nearby Swat.

  But the militants have responded with eight bomb attacks in towns and cities since late April, three on Thursday in the northwest, a day after 26 people were killed in a suicide gun and bomb attack in Lahore.

  The militants are trying to undermine the state's determination to fight them, and the broad public support the army's campaign enjoys, analysts told Reuters on Friday.

  ‘This is exactly what the militants are trying to do because they have done it successfully in the past. But things have changed substantially,’ security analyst Ikram Sehgal said"

  Frankly, the Taliban have been have been playing a card from a previous era that worked until recently. See Pakistan was complicit with the United States with the mujadeen fighting the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Remember , this was when Osama bin Laden was a CIA asset.  Of course, the Taliban took over in Afghanistan as a result of the covert war . The alliances between the CIA , Mujadeen and Pakistan were all ones of self interest for all parties.

  Post 9/11 there has been awkward situations for the Pakistani government because of those aliances. Pakistan had supported the Talibans Afghan government and their involvement in Kashmir. Understandably their was a mutual mistrust between us and them and the Taliban played the conflict of interest and betrayal card to the max.

  But as Dawn reports,

  "The Taliban in Pakistan overplayed their hand when, under cover of a controversial peace pact, they denounced the constitution and pushed out of the former tourist valley of Swat towards the capital.

  ‘The Taliban attempt to make their presence felt in an area that a large number of Pakistanis are familiar with, and the way they went about it, the brutality, exposed them and changed opinion,’ said Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group think-tank.

  ‘They are no longer considered alienated, disaffected Pakistanis who need to be brought into the fold. They're looked upon much more as criminals who should be brought to justice.’

  "The violence the militants have unleashed demonstrated the extent of the threat they posed and is steeling opposition, Ahmed said.

  ‘It strengthens the government's position that the terrorists pose a major threat ... It's no longer a remote conflict being fought in FATA,’ she said, referring to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas."

  It appears he understands the rationale of the Taliban when he concludes,

  "Wavering at this stage would dash the hopes of the public and be disastrous, he said"

  Hey Barack, how about taking a hat tip from a Muslim State? Notice they aren't going to the UN  for any sanctions, they aren't look for peace talks, they are going to root the Taliban out and kill them. What is their conclusion Barack?

  Pakistan sees no option to back down, in fact, according to Reuters- "‘If they stop the operation now then prepare yourself for a Taliban state.’

  Barack, there is a time for talk and there is a time to act. The UN is on line one for you.

  More info: Taliban kills three US Spies

                   Pakistani Taliban claim to be moving in

                   Displaced and Distraught

                   Times of terror: Blast hits Peshawar

  Update: North Korea is really scared now we are seeking sanctions. Good job leaders!

  North Korea Test-Fires Short-Range Missile

   North Korea rattled its neighbors again Friday when it fired a short-range missile off its east coast, the sixth such firing since the secretive country conducted an underground nuclear test on Monday, and a large number of Chinese fishing boats left the disputed water off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula in the past several days, according to reports from South Korea.

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  Update 2 : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is calling for a face-to-face debate with his American counterpart Barack Obama at the United Nations.

  "Mr. President, have you grown a set of cojones yet, or are you still trying to play by some strange set of rules YOU want to play by? You are no longer campaigning; the world doesn’t play by the same set of civil rules the Republican’s play by. The world court plays for keeps, and you sir are bringing a knife to a gun fight. They aren’t taken by your charm, they could care less about charm, and they want to killllllllllllllllllllllllll us! Earth to Obama, if you want to play strong arm law, this IS the time to do it, and not against the American citizens. Your main job sir in case you forgot is to protect us……..us as in the American people, and not just your blessed democrats.

  This is what “respect” has gotten us"

  Maybe someone will explain the difference in between liking us, jealously and respect to Barack.

   

   

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