Taliban challenge Pakistani government
posted at 2:15 pm on April 22, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The deal to allow the Taliban to administer shari’a law in Swat has produced predictable results. Instead of pacifying the radical Islamists, they have grown emboldened enough to demand that Pakistan impose shari’a over the entire nation:
The Taliban in Pakistan have issued a direct challenge to the legitimacy of the Pakistani government, by declaring the country’s entire legal system “un-Islamic.”
“Let the judges and the lawyers go to Islamic university,” said Muslim Khan, a Taliban spokesman in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. “(After) they learn Islamic rules, Islamic regulation, they can continue to work.”
In a telephone interview Tuesday with CNN, Khan demanded the imposition of Islamic sharia law all across the country. He also called for the creation of jaziya, an Islamic tax, to be levied on all non-Muslims in Pakistan. And Khan denounced any Pakistanis who disagreed with his interpretation of Islam, calling them “non-Muslims.”
How’s that appeasement working out for you, Ali Zardari? Feel any safer since allowing the lunatics to run the asylum in Swat?
The attack on the legal community is no accident. The attorneys have pushed off shari’a for years, and have mostly defied the radicals. That’s why Khan and his followers consider them their primary opponents, at least in the political sense — and maybe in all other senses as well, after the surrender in Swat by Islamabad.
However, as CNN reports, the legal community may have already begun to retreat. They could not get a response on the record on Khan’s comments from any of the leading legal figures. Once the government surrendered, they read the writing on the wall.
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The totally predictable scorpion and frog tale.
Fletch54 on April 22, 2009 at 2:19 PM
I wonder when/if Obama will cotton on to the true nature of militant Islam. You’d think someone purported to be as smart as he is would have noticed that they can’t be trusted don’t ya’ think?
jeanie on April 22, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Say, aren’t we paying jizya to Pockeestahn our own-dhimmi-selves?
Maquis on April 22, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Is there a way we could admit blame for all this?
seven on April 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM
If Pakistan keeps going down the shi**er, will history judge’s Bush’s strategy in Afghanistan as a monumental failure? When you destroy an animals habitat, it always runs for the nearest source of cover. It appears that Bush and the military did not strategize for the escape to Pakistan in their Afghanistan strategy.
WashJeff on April 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM
A Taliban spokessavage went on to say that toiletries would no longer be allowed in Pakistan, so as to hasten the departure of the infidels.
These savages are pre-historic, literally.
OhEssYouCowboys on April 22, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Once again proof positve that attempting to appease an enemy sworn to destroy you and replace you with a fascist ideology is futile!
Yet Obambi wants to hold hands and sing Kumbaya with these animals thinking it will change their ideology and hatred toward the west…a dangerous and naive belief that will have dire consequences for America and its people!
Gird your loins and stock up with food, water, guns, and ammo…I see a bad moon rising!
Liberty or Death on April 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Sorta akin to that old line,
“Q: What the difference between a burned out light bulb and a pregnant girlfriend?
A: You can unscrew a light bulb.”
Once Islamabad surrendered Swat and environs to shari’a in order to take the short-run approach of minimizing losses today…it will be difficult if not impossible to get the Taliban in the region to surrender shari’a unless Islamabad is willing to expend time, effort, arms and lives in order to convince the Taliban they appeased to now toe the Pakistan line under Pakistan consitutional law. Unscrewing that light bulb…tough task.
Appeasement. Short sighted? Sure. Dumb? Ditto. Expected? Certainly.
Wanting to be emulated elsewhere? You betcha.
coldwarrior on April 22, 2009 at 2:30 PM
First they came for the Swatians, then they came for the Pakistanis, then they came for the Danes, then they came for the Minnesotans.
MB4 on April 22, 2009 at 2:32 PM
This is a sign that appeasement works so all you lunatic conservatives that have been beating on my president should learn!
sarc
youngO on April 22, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Say it isn’t so…..Pockistan is not muslim enough. Put away your whiskey and put the goats in the front yard, it’s gonna be a LONG year!
HornetSting on April 22, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Don’t they make “Roach Hotels” in human sizes?
No??
Darn!
elderberry on April 22, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Actually, they did. Their strategy was to prop up Musharraf and give Pakistan money and intelligence (showing them what we know so that they could move). They seemed to think that being ‘friends’ with Pakistan meant they would help us.
Yes, Bush’s Afghanistan War will be seen as a monumental failure because we weren’t allowed to fight to win as we were too concerned with making friends and winning hearts and minds instead of doing what it takes (including stepping on a few toes and killing people) to win a war.
ThackerAgency on April 22, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Tora Bora – November, 2001
OhEssYouCowboys on April 22, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Yup, Hillary sounded the alarm today.
60 miles away from the nukes.
Do you still want him to fail?
getalife on April 22, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Yes, now more than ever.
hillbillyjim on April 22, 2009 at 2:39 PM
One of the inevitable consequences of using a faulty, unreality-based, completely lacking in self-criticism, and unreformable legal system like sharia is the bloody infighting. The most Islamic of all Islamic states, Iran and Saudi Arabia, never tire of punishing their own people for being not nearly Islamic enough. Saudi Arabia of course spawned the takfiri Al Qaeda group which hates other Islamists almost as much as the kufr. To the extent Islam means peace, Islam means the peace of the grave. Even total submission to Islam only leads to more violence.
But let’s try it anyway right, H?
Beagle on April 22, 2009 at 2:39 PM
A significant reason for that happening is the Northern Alliance was bought off by AQ/Taliban allowing them to escpape into Pakistan, further proof you can’t trust Islamic Jihadists/fascists at their word!
Liberty or Death on April 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Forceful speech, yes, that’ll stop a terrorist.
Wethal on April 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM
I think we need to send a box of catapillars to the Taliban to make them settle down.
HornetSting on April 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM
Normally I would say to let the neanderthals have Pakistan, the whole reap what you sow thing, but nukes make all the difference.
Which balloon goes up first: India/Pakistan or Israel/Iran?
Bishop on April 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM
BAM CHANNELS LBJ
To his credit, Obama noted Pakistan’s importance. Then he got all the solutions wrong.
Start with his inane — but touchingly American — statement that “the people of Pakistan want the same things we want.” Oh, really?
How many readers think Sharia law would be a good idea? How about beating the crap out of women just for yuks? Or stoning them to death because they smiled at the wrong time? And let’s ban alcohol, bare arms, dating and jobs for women. And grow those beards, fellas!
Yeah, we’re tight. We’re such good buds that, while the Pakistanis protect the worst elements within the Taliban, manipulate our key supply line and pander to terrorists, Obama wants to guarantee Pakistan’s stunningly corrupt politicians $1.5 billion in aid every year. Plus military aid.
Why on earth should the Pakistanis help us when we reward them lavishly for screwing us?
And since it’s still our policy to punish those who aid terrorists, we need to punish ourselves. We bear a portion of the responsibility for every Pakistan-backed terror attack on India. Why? Because the Pakistanis know that, no matter how brutal the deeds of their terrorist auxiliaries, we’ll step in to “mediate” and prevent the Indians from retaliating.
Want a truly fresh strategy that would work? End all support of any kind to Pakistan. Close our embassy. Do what makes military sense and reduce our forces in Afghanistan to a level that can be supplied by air. And concentrate on destroying al Qaeda, not on “owning” village X. (Obama’s approach just stinks of Vietnam.)
Imagine how different the situation would be if we weren’t Pakistan’s strategic prisoner and didn’t stand between Islamabad and Delhi. What if the Pakistanis had to behave responsibly and stop sponsoring terror attacks against India — or face India’s wrath? Nuclear war? Pakistan would vanish, India would lick its wounds. And the Pakistanis know it.
And how about asking ourselves the fundamental question: “Why is India a success story and Pakistan a complete failure?” Any chance that backward Islam might have something to do with it? We can’t bribe people to succeed.
Our president identified al Qaeda as Pakistan’s No. 1 enemy. That’s wishful thinking. Pakistan’s leading enemy has always been corruption. No. 2 is its home-grown Islamist insurgency. Al Qaeda’s way down the list.
Our pathetically naive president articulated one sound goal — defeating al Qaeda — then told us how he wasn’t going to do it. Like LBJ, all he can think of is more troops and more aid. Can’t we ask ourselves why the Taliban’s thriving? After the military beatings we’ve given them? How many of our troops must die for an empty policy?
Hey … hey … ho … ho … BHO. . . Why don’t [getalife and the rest of] your supporters go?
MB4 on April 22, 2009 at 2:42 PM
I know. Real Americans thinking country first.
BS.
Our troops will engage and real Americans will support them and their Commander In Chief while cons will continue to wanting them to fail.
Shame.
getalife on April 22, 2009 at 2:43 PM
India/Pakistan by a mile. . . Likely in Kashmir initially. What a shame for such a beautiful part of the world.
ThackerAgency on April 22, 2009 at 2:43 PM
This willingness to trust someone to fight your fight was a boneheaded decision (though I cannot think of alternative). I would guess our history has numerous examples where we “outsourced” our fight only to be screwed.
I will have to read a Tora Bora book someday to see what went wrong. Why didn’t we drop several MOABs on the area?
WashJeff on April 22, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Shariah law=kill the infidel(anyone who does not practice their version of radical Islam).
Smart power…sarc/
canditaylor68 on April 22, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Common sense, Something the ZERO administration doesn’t have. Yes, I know it’s the Taliban, but this is really bad, the progression here.
tarpon on April 22, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Cool, another group Obama can have a photo-op with.
tommuck on April 22, 2009 at 2:47 PM
My understanding is that the majority of American bombing in Tora Bora came AFTER Bin Hidin had escaped into Pakistan. Liberty or Death has set forth how that escape came into being.
OhEssYouCowboys on April 22, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Let’s make a list of obama fires to put out:
1. North Korea missles.
2. Iran nuclear program.
3 Somalian pirates.
4. Mexican cartels/military bleeding over into U.S. border.
5. Pockistan being gamed by Taliban.
HornetSting on April 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM
How will our troops engage when Obama has already shut them out of Pakistan? Obama rules out American troops in Pakistan
canditaylor68 on April 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM
It’s up to the Pakistanis to do something about this, either they raise hell with their government to do something or they sit back and wait for the inevitable.
Where do the decent Pakistani’s run to if the shiite hits the fan, Tajikistan? What a mess this is going to be.
Bishop on April 22, 2009 at 2:49 PM
getalife on April 22, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Do you ever make any logical sense? Why the heck wouldn’t you hope he fails? I guess you like the current track.
youngO on April 22, 2009 at 2:49 PM
This one was trying to be banned by the CIA:
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/jawbreaker/cia
They outsourced the fighting to Afghan drug lords and cut and ran to invade Iraq.
getalife on April 22, 2009 at 2:50 PM
We have got something for them if they try to come for the Texans.
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 2:51 PM
OhEssYouCowboys on April 22, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Yeah, Tora Bora was the beginning. We stopped bombing because they called a ‘truce’ to sign a treaty. We almost had them. They were ready to give up. We stopped bombing, Obama escaped (surprise).
After that, we basically told the Taliban and Al Qaeda that we weren’t going to fight them in Pakistan – where would you go if you were Taliban and Al Qaeda? No brainer.
Musharraf’s government had a kabuki theater of sorts whenever he wanted more money from Bush to ‘prove’ that they were allies on us fighting the ‘war on terror’. But it was a ruse to get more money. Yes, they set off bombs, yes some people were killed on either side in Pakistan. But there was no rhyme or reason to the Pakistani offensives against Taliban or Al Qaeda other than getting money from the USA. The whole world knew what was going on except Americans and the American media. It was always reported about how much of a friend Pakistan was to us. . . so we gave them more money.
ThackerAgency on April 22, 2009 at 2:52 PM
The teacher is calling, young’un.
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Appeasement does not work, this follows Islams plan
watch and learn
http://www.warroom.com/whatislamisnot.php
sargentj on April 22, 2009 at 2:52 PM
A real plan would envision getting together with Pakistani Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani, and promising him complete support should the national government collapse as Kiyani unleashes the Pakistani armed forces against any and all Taliban, AQ, or jihadists elements inside Pakistan. Kiyani (and a good portion of the senior Pakistani army) is not anti-US…but are anti-US policies, as they have seen in the recent past, when they do our bidding, our press, and our Congress will cut them off at the knees, or higher up.
Kiyani also needs to use the Pakistani armed forces security services to uproot, expose and arrest all ISI members who are still in bed with the jihadists, a propensity the ISI has had since our earliest days of the former Soviet-Afghan War.
Kiyani needs to be made to understand that so long as the Taliban in Pakistan, and in Afghanistan, is on the take from Saudi Arabia, and in the pockets of the jihadists, Pakistan is well on the verge of violent failure as a nation-state.
Then, we need to address the Saudis…
It’d be nice, wouldn’t it?
But, since “drill here drill now” is a complete non-starter, we’ve no leverage with the Saudis….none.
And the Obama Administration has no clue whatsoever about how Pakistan actually works day-to-day, as seen in Hillary’s remarks, none of the above will ever come to fruition.
If only we had a President and a Congress who could put together a cogent thought without staffing it out…
In the meantime…guys, let your facial hair grow out, learn a few good phrases from the Koran, and take a look at goat-herding as a new profession. And, ladies, burkhas aren’t all that bad… /s
Coming soon to America…shari’a.
coldwarrior on April 22, 2009 at 2:52 PM
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/04/pakistani_taliban_welcome_osam_1.asp
Taliban spokesman says Osama Bin Laden is welcome in Swat.
Mark1971 on April 22, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Did anyone notice that this getalife is writing differently than the “haiku” getalife? Or is it just me?
kingsjester on April 22, 2009 at 2:54 PM
“…and the ISI is in the pockets of the jihadists, Pakistan is well on the verge of violent failure as a nation-state.”
Getting old…brain-eye-hand coordination failing miserably. :-)
coldwarrior on April 22, 2009 at 2:54 PM
OOPS . . . seriously.
ThackerAgency on April 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Yes, perhaps its time for some support from the cons.
Instead of wanting him to fail like hillbilly.
getalife on April 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM
‘haiku’
LOL. I needed that laugh.
OhEssYouCowboys on April 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Your man is a failure. Real Americans will have to do the job.
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM
I do not wish success to Obama’s efforts to cut our military effectiveness, or his plans to halt our missile defense development.
I also do not wish success to his efforts to consolidate more and more power to the executive branch despite the unconstitutionality of his administration’s actions.
I do not wish success to Obama’s efforts to crush our economy with crippling energy taxes disguised by subterfuge.
In short, yes, I want him to fail. Now more than ever.
This has nothing to do with you.
That is an abject lie and you know it.
hillbillyjim on April 22, 2009 at 2:55 PM
No surprise.
getalife on April 22, 2009 at 2:56 PM
Apparently has a “stand-in” at the rest home. You know, some one to take over during sponge baths and cath replacements.
coldwarrior on April 22, 2009 at 2:56 PM
The only solution at this point in the game is to treat Pakistan like Iraq and go in to clean house. Absent that, we might as well get our boys out of harms way because nukes are going to be set off. They can reach all the way across Afghanistan.
We could fight a proxy war using India, and that might be the best solution. . . but there is no good solution once we allowed Pakistan to dictate terms to us on Rules of Engagement on their side of the ‘border’ (that they didn’t control anyway).
ThackerAgency on April 22, 2009 at 2:57 PM
On the issue of shame, getalife, well I’m glad you brought that up. How can you live with your continuing shame of not supporting your President in Afghanistan? And then there is the “small” matter of Pakistan, of course, where he may well need you after Afghanistan. Here you are spending still more time mentally masturbating on Hotair when you should be at least most of the way done with BCT by now. Shameful! Support your President by joining either the U.S. Army or the U.S. Marines, getalife. Don’t wait any longer. Your President needs you NOW! Don’t keep letting your President down. Do it right now or we will all lose all our respect for you.
MB4 on April 22, 2009 at 2:57 PM
And it will get worse as more despots realize how weak Obama is.
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Could we all please ignore this ignoramous?
Nuts4koi on April 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Realistically, no president has had any plan for Pakistan becoming a completely failed Islamic state. So Obama had better come up with a plan to destroy or control Pakistan’s nukes, and quickly. No amount of respect, appeasement of unicorns and sprites (“moderate Taliban”), or smooth teleprompting will get it done.
Beagle on April 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM
dude, I totally apologized for that. I’m well known for poor grammar and un proofread posts and typos. But whatever. . . in a post bashing Bush, I wanted to take a dig at Obama. whatever.
ThackerAgency on April 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM
I’m thinkin’ tag-team-misfits.
Coming soon to a WWF production.
OhEssYouCowboys on April 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM
My husbands group leaves tonight/tomorrow at odark30 in the morning. If one of those men or woman dies I will hold Obama personally responsible this is his war now. Support from the cons-kiss my cona$$-most on this comment board have given their lives, their money and their sons and daughters in support of this great nation. Truly the worst of us can admit that no one can give more than that.
canditaylor68 on April 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM
MB4 on April 22, 2009 at 2:57 PM
I support our Commander In Chief .
Just getting cons to show some patriotism in a time of war is about all I can do.
getalife on April 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Can’t, Jr.high and all, you know.
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Sort of like you did with Bush, huh?
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Don’t address me, you a$$hat.
HornetSting on April 22, 2009 at 3:02 PM
You should have had a V8!
MB4 on April 22, 2009 at 3:03 PM
Semper Fi.
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 3:03 PM
With a Stoli and Red Bull chaser, apparently. :-)
coldwarrior on April 22, 2009 at 3:04 PM
coldwarrior on April 22, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Some good thinking in that post. Similarly, Chavez has us over his knee because we won’t drill in the US or use oil shale.
Beagle on April 22, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Yes, this one will escalate and their is no failure in my support of your husband and fellow troops.
God bless them.
getalife on April 22, 2009 at 3:06 PM
The Buck stops at the Presidents desk right liberals.
How’s that “smart power” working out.
Baxter Greene on April 22, 2009 at 3:07 PM
I agree, outsourcing does have its problems but at the time the US wanted to act quickly and using the NA was the best tactic at the time and had we gone it alone (without the NA) we could have possibly been fighting both the NA and the Taliban/AQ. It was the best strategic decision at the time yet it’s unfortunate that we were betrayed by the alliance we were trying to help.
As for a good book on wht happened in Tora Bora I suggest The Hunt for Bin Laden. I can’t think of the authors name off hand.
Cheers.
Liberty or Death on April 22, 2009 at 3:07 PM
No you do not. You say to the tree tops that you do, but clearly you do not. You are a faux Obama supporter.
MB4 on April 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM
I’m lgad thta I do nto have thta porblme.
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM
What a joke coming from the liberal group that did everything they could to sell out this country and stab our Soldiers in the back for political gain in yelling for surrender in Iraq while our Soldiers were in the field of battle.
Baxter Greene on April 22, 2009 at 3:10 PM
You are getting close to hurting someone’s feelings.
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM
I might support Obama’s plan for Pakistan if there was a plan for Pakistan, other than sending them billions of dollars and giving nice speeches against nuclear weapons.
Beagle on April 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM
Getalife will hold your husbands coat while he fights for getalife’s President and getalife stays in his mom’s basement mentally masturbating at his terminal with his ever more transparent faux declarations of support for his President.
MB4 on April 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM
” Bush lied, people died”. Remember that?
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Geez, I was hoping this post would draw some unity.
Guess not.
getalife on April 22, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Can you describe in the most general terms anything Obama has planned for Pakistan? Anything other than his campaign ‘promise’ he’d invade it? Throw us a bone here, Einstein.
Beagle on April 22, 2009 at 3:15 PM
And, “General Betrayus”.
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 3:15 PM
MB4 on April 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Was he one of those who said during the Bush years that anyone who didn’t enlist was a coward or hypocrite or something? I’m too lazy to go researching but I wouldn’t doubt it; I’m hoping someone might have kept an old post of his.
Bishop on April 22, 2009 at 3:15 PM
Thanks. I also came across Kill Bin Laden written by Dalton Fury (psuedonym). I will have to queue one of those up after reading Meltdown and Liberty and Tyranny.
WashJeff on April 22, 2009 at 3:16 PM
I think it was a poor decision to have us ask the NA to help. After their leader was assassinated on 9/11 by Al Qaeda, the NA was not worth anything. Their leader was their backbone. While they could still fight, I still say we would have been better off fighting all of them than how it happened.
Again, we’ll never know. Monday morning QB and everything.
But the USA has the meanest best equipped, most well trained fighting force in the world. We just don’t use it. We don’t need ANYBODY to fight our wars for us. We have the finest military machine in history. We don’t need NA. We didn’t need NA. And we could have defeated the NA, Al Qaeda, Taliban, AND Pakistan’s national army altogether.
We should have.
ThackerAgency on April 22, 2009 at 3:17 PM
I am just trying to shame getalife into doing the right thing. I don’t want her to have to tell her kids and grandkids that she did not support her President. It is for getalife’s own good. She will thank me some day or wish that she had listened to me when her kids and grandkids shun her. I am looking out for getalife. Tough love. If she listens to me then some day she will thank me.
MB4 on April 22, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Pakistan
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
pseudonominus on April 22, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Never forget…
canditaylor68 on April 22, 2009 at 3:18 PM
Yes they did rely on the local tribes to help them navigate
an area that no known maps have been made of.
Ask John Kerry,he approved of this tactic until he flip flopped liked the typical liberal.
Of course we would not even be talking about 9/11 if the inept liberal leadership under Clinton had taken care of Osama
when he was handed to him on a silver platter.
Micheal Sheuer (no friend of Bush’s) lays it on the line:
Harry Smith Taken Aback as CBS Analyst Blames Clinton for bin Laden Failures
By Michael Rule (Bio | Archive)
September 25, 2006 – 10:28 ET
http://newsbusters.org/node/7871
Despite Bill Clinton’s angry protestations, the bulk of the blame for America’s failure to catch or kill Osama bin Laden lies squarely on the Clinton administration, at least according to terrorism analyst Michael Scheuer.
(who headed the Bin Laden unit under Clinton):
Scheuer refuted Smith’s portrayal of Clinton:
“All right, is the Bush administration any less responsible for not finishing the job in Tora Bora?”
Scheuer acknowledged that there is plenty of blame to go around for not getting bin Laden, but asserted that Clinton bears most of it:
Scheuer continued his response and accused President Clinton of lying to the American people:
Baxter Greene on April 22, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Baxter Greene on April 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM
So is it safe to say that liberals will now be in favor of invading a sovereign country that has not attacked America to stop a possible terrorist threat based on intelligence gathered by the same groups that gathered intelligence on Iraq?
Drones and talking are not going to fix this nightmare in Pakistan.
Baxter Greene on April 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM
I am afraid that all of getalife’s past comments may have been placed in the $hit burn barrel and are now up in smoke. An totally inadvertent mistake, no doubt.
MB4 on April 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Perhaps Perez Hilton would like to move to Pakistan and see if he can get a gay marriage amendment to shari’a passed. Since we’re so darn intolerant here in the U.S.
Traffic Cop Timmy on April 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM
I have more patriotism in a nosehair than you will possibly ever manage to have.
Prayers for your husband and his unit. My son is stationed in S Korea, so I understand your concern.
ladyingray on April 22, 2009 at 3:26 PM
DarkCurrent on April 22, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Is there a way we could admit blame for all this?
seven on April 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Leave it to Obama as smart as he is i’m sure he’ll think of an oppropriate apology.
heshtesh on April 22, 2009 at 3:29 PM
It did not help either when the liberal press released the fact that we were following Bin Laden via his Satellite phone.
He immediately ditched it severing the best chance we had of continuing to hunt him down.
Kind of reminds me of the NSA and banking tracking system used for tracking terrorist and their money that the NY Times revealed in trying to undercut our war effort.
OHHH..I’m sorry,getalife considers this “showing support” for the President during war time.
Baxter Greene on April 22, 2009 at 3:29 PM
yet another post full of troll droppings. ewwww
scalleywag on April 22, 2009 at 3:29 PM
“… they [Marine] killed innocent civilians in cold blood.”
(Murtha, May 17, 2006 at news conference)
BLITZER: The marines say they’re still investigating. They don’t know what happened yet. The pentagon says the same thing. How do you know what happened?
MURTHA: Wolf, you read the “Time” magazine articles. There are pictures, there are photos. You don’t have to talk to the military about the proof.
Johan Klaus on April 22, 2009 at 3:31 PM
True, but that likely pales in comparison to the intelligence our CIA gave to the ISI that was working in conjunction with the Taliban and Al Qaeda. I’ll bet that one time when we nearly got Zawahiri he was tipped off by us sharing intelligence with Pakistan.
How we handled Pakistan was terrible. Poor planning, poor military strategy, poor political strategy. I love my country, but we lost this war. We might say we are doing well in Afghanistan, but I don’t see it when we just basically turned Pakistan into an Afghanistan on steroids. I’m not a Harry Reid here, but if I’m the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Pakistan, I declare victory and increase my recruitment 10 fold.
ThackerAgency on April 22, 2009 at 3:33 PM
My family and I wish your husband a successful mission and a safe return.
Thank you for our Freedoms.
Baxter Greene on April 22, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Too late, he has already failed.
MarkTheGreat on April 22, 2009 at 3:34 PM
DarkCurrent on April 22, 2009 at 3:34 PM
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