And Obama seems to be the only candidate willing to face it: http://www.slate.com/id/2200134/
"Few want to accept that the war is widening; that it now involves Pakistan, a country with an unstable government and nuclear weapons." I wonder...where was US Intelligence when Pakistan was becoming a nuclear power? We are being focused on Iran...and before that it was Iraq and a hundred and one other things...but all the while Pakistan was becoming nuclear. How did that happen? "The truth is that the Taliban, and its al-Qaida guests, were originally imposed on Afghanistan from without as a projection of Pakistani state power. (Along with Pakistan, only Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates ever recognized the Taliban as the legal government in Kabul.) " There is Saudi Arabia again, always in the news in connection with Extremism. Yet they are one of the US' greatest allies. "We were all warned of this many years ago. When the Clinton administration sent cruise missiles into Afghanistan in reprisal for the attacks on our embassies in East Africa, the missiles missed Osama Bin Ladin but did, if you remember, manage to kill two officers of the ISI. It wasn't asked loudly enough: What were these men doing in an al-Qaida camp in the first place? In those years, as in earlier ones, almost no tough questions were asked of Pakistan. " Interesting. And then they become a nuclear power. "Recent accounts of murderous violence in the capital cities of two of our allies, India and Afghanistan, make it appear overwhelmingly probable that the bombs were not the work of local or homegrown "insurgents" but were orchestrated by agents of the Pakistani ISI." Hmm...Interesting read. There's just too much going on in the world now. Economy, Terrorism, US Elections and the worldwide effect on just about everything else. :-\ The world is a depressing place currently. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269510 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
