Why is Pakistan Protecting Al Qaeda and the Taliban?
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
September 16, 2008 10:49pm CST
"U.S. military commanders complain Islamabad has been doing too little to prevent the Taliban and other militant groups from recruiting, training and resupplying in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt.
Pakistan acknowledges the presence of al-Qaida fugitives and its difficulties in preventing militants from seeping into Afghanistan. However, it insists it is doing what it can and paying a heavy price, pointing to its deployment of more then 100,000 troops in the increasingly restive northwest and a wave of suicide bombings across the country."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan
Why is Pakistan knowingly protecting Al Qaeda, the Taliban and most likely even Bin Laden himself? Asif Ali Zardari claims that the terrorists are hard to find and that they are doing everything they can.
Hey As If! Why don't you look at the border where they are crossing into Afghanistan or taking pot shots at US and NATO troops from YOUR nation!
If he wants to protect terrorists, why should we treat him with any respect at all? If he is knowingly hiding Bin Laden then he shouldn't expect anything more from us than to be treated like the dog he is.
PS. This is why I don't work for the state department. I'm not willing to act like someone is an ally when they are killing our troops.
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@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
17 Sep 08
Augh, listen: the former leader of Pakistan was a jerk who only cared about power. The new guy has his mess now. PLUS, we did not even consult them before we started treating their country like a new war zone and we killed a whole bunch of their children in one of those lawless tribes, plus some women because someone told us there was a terrorist there. Maybe there was, maybe there wasn't -- and we've had the audacity to lie that we killed those civilians...why the heck wouldn't thy be shooting at us as soon as we arrive?
We basically violated the sovereignty of yet another nation, and this one's supposedly our friend (sortof)...so...BLAH.
Stupidity on both sides, yes...and our soldiers and their civilians are dying because of it.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
17 Sep 08
Pakistan has been protecting people who are launching attacks against Afghanistan from their country.
Yet another example of it only being considered "war" if the US shoots back.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
17 Sep 08
They have been letting this happen for years. They can't just say, "new leader" and erase everything that's happened, especially since the new leader is just as willing to allow the terrorists safe haven.
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@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
17 Sep 08
Unfortunately, had we just said, "Yo, we need to go and try to kill some bad guys hiding in the hills in your lands"...they probably wouldn't have had much of a problem with it, considering their new leader and all (though perhaps we wouldn't have stepped up our game in the middle east if the last guy hadn't stepped down, but I digress).
You really can't place the blame really easily, because there's very few people playing by any rules here.
And I'm not one for blaming an entire country for what a few do inside it. In this case, it would particularly smack of hypocrisy if I did so.
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@1grnthmb (2055)
• United States
18 Sep 08
They protect him because they hate us. The US has been considered evil by them for years thanks to our own actions of turning countries against each other. They are also a nation of mostly Islam and they think we are the Infidels. So in their point of veiw it is us that are the terrorism. An you are right. Why do we treat them with respect when they are clearly against us.
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@1grnthmb (2055)
• United States
19 Sep 08
Yes! But they shouldn't be. We always seem to have one in our boot straps in any part of the world. Iraq was in the 60's and 70's and they were just as evil as Iran who we were having conflicts with. Then we turn and attack Iraq and ask Iran to help us. No wonder most of the world hates us. We choice what at the time is considered the lesser of two evils and buddy up to them only to turn on them latter on. Maybe if we stayed out of other countries affairs there would be a lot more people in the world who liked us. Just because we do not agree wioth the government that a country choices is no reason to force them to change. That would be like wanting my wife to have brown eyes and having her have a surgery to change the color of her eye and then not liking them and wanting them to be blue.
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
21 Sep 08
Maybe it's for the same reason moderate Muslims don't stick their neck out to speak up against radical Islam.. (Yet, as a nation, it's rather chicken.. and why not use the US as aide to rid their country of this scourge?)
@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
18 Sep 08
Because we crossed their borders without permission and took military action on their turf without their permission. There's a new sheriff in town there, not someone WE put in place, and he believes, as we would by the way, that no one has the right to come into his country and take military action without first getting permission. We wouldn't allow it - why should they? They're our allies - how can we, in good conscience, RAID their country - regardless of why? Would we do that to England? Would we do that to Germany? Why do we think we can do it to Pakistan?
It's NOT that they're protecting the Taliban (although the local tribes probably are). They're defending their country's autonomy - just like WE WOULD!
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
18 Sep 08
They have been protecting the Taliban and Al Qaeda for years now. They have allowed both to stage attacks across the border for years now. The "new sheriff" has made it clear that he isn't going to do anything about it.
Now we shoot back and all of the sudden it "means war".
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
18 Sep 08
Pakistan continues to allow the terrorists safe haven while launching attacks into Afghanistan. So why is it only an "act of war" when we shoot back?
btw, like I said before, I'm not excusing US actions at all here, i'm just wondering why it is only after we shoot back that its considered "war".
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
18 Sep 08
Technically Para, an attack on civilians inside a sovereign nation is an act of war. By warning us off they've given us a rare opportunity to back out of a mistake.
Your outrage, imho, is misplaced.
If they'd gone into our country hunting terrorists and killed our civilians along the way, it would be automatically considered a declaration of war and we would not even consider giving them this courtesy.
@banadux (630)
• United States
17 Sep 08
If they are truly protecting terrorists and those terrorists perform an act of aggression against any country I think by extension Pakistan has performed that act of aggression. If you harbor terrorists you should be held responsible for their actions.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
17 Sep 08
The question isn't "if", they know the terrorists are there, they know that they are planning and launching attacks against Afghanistan from their country. So what is the "if" part?
