Thursday, April 23, 2009

THE FRUITS OF APPEASEMENT: TALIBAN SEIZE REGION WITHIN 70 MILES OF PAKISTAN'S CAPITAL

From Reliapundit at the Astute Bloggers:

Taliban militants have established control of a strategically important area only 70 miles from the capital, law enforcement officials said Wednesday. The move is part of an unrelenting push by the Taliban toward the heart of Pakistan.

Heavily armed militants were patrolling villages and local police had retreated to their station houses in much of the city of Buner, a rural area adjacent to Swat, where the Taliban seized control from the Pakistani army in February, they said. Buner is a gateway to a major Pakistani city, Mardan.

“They take over Buner, then they roll into Mardan and that’s the end of the game,” a senior law enforcement official in the North West Frontier Province said.

The expansion of the Taliban into Buner comes 10 days after the government of President Asif Ali Zardari agreed to the introduction of Sharia law in Swat, a move that the Obama administration has criticized as too much of a concession to the Taliban.


  • I GUESS THAT PRESSURING MUSHARRAF TO SPLIT HAVE ELECTIONS HAS TURNED OUT TO BE A BAD THING; AT LEAST WITH HIM IT WAS A STALEMATE.
  • SINCE THE PRO-JIHADIST AND UTTERLY CORRUPT SCUM TOOK OVER THINGS HAVE GONE DOWNHILL FAST.
  • IT'S WORKED OUT AS WELL AS ALLOWING HAMAS ON THE BALLOT.
  • AND YES: I BLAME BUSH - WHO WAS NOT THE WARMONGER THE LEFT SAID HE WAS, BUT A HALF-ASSED DOVE WHO HAD US FIGHT WITH ONE HAND BEHIND OUR BACKS.
JUST IMAGINE: A NUCLEAR ARMED TALIBAN. THINK THEY'LL BE HAPPY JUST TO BLOW UP ANCIENT BUDDHAS!?!?

  • I THINK IT IS WISE AND JUST AND RIGHT AND GOOD FOR THE USA TO ANNIHILATE THE TALIBAN NOW - BEFORE THEY GET NUKES; (WE SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS IN OCTOBER 2001!).
  • IT IS NOT WISE OR JUST OR RIGHT OR GOOD TO WAIT FOR THEM TO NUKE US OR AN ALLY.
  • DITTO IRAN.
  • THE LEFT WOULD RATHER RETALIATE FOR A NUKE ATTACK THEN PREEMPTIVELY ATTACK.
  • THAT'S INSANE.

7 comments:

Damien said...

Pastorius,

This is not good.

Anonymous said...

Patorius -

I left comments on Shiva's post below similar to your post. I thought I just had TDS. But I am really, really, really worried that India in particular is in imminent (like between two weeks and two months) existential danger.

My comment was that they were not going to be content with Kashmir.

Is there any way at all to disarm those nukes NOW?? I fear that taking out the Taliban is so far beyond our CIC's ability to even comprehend, that we must now just focus on getting the damn nukes neutered.

Is there any way to do that?

Culturist John said that Holbrook just thinks we need to send more money to Pakistan, since the Taliban are merely a symptom of ignorance and poverty!!

Holy moses. Do you know what the Paki's missle capabilities are?

But even if they are relatively short range, if they get India to submit, then they have India's nukes in a few months. Then they threaten, who, China? Thailand, Indonesia, for sure.

Maybe China would have the gonads to stop it at that point??

I just dunno. I just think we need to get those nuclear warheads either outa there or disabled now, while there is still time.

Ro

Anonymous said...

Sorry - it was Epa's post, not Shiva's.

Apologies.

I need a glass of wine, I think. . .

I just cannot get that damn book "On the Beach" out of my head.

Ro

Anonymous said...

Apologies again - Pastorius.

Now I cannot get "Guns of August" out of my head, either.

The entire book, ya know what's gonna happen, but you just keep hoping that one, just one of those damn dominoes will NOT fall, or will fall cock-eyed and the rest will remain standing.

And WWI happened. And the slow decline has just accelerated. And here we are on the cusp again.

Ok, enough fun for one evening.

Ro

Andre79 said...

For the talibans will be the usual suspects: India and/or Israel. I very much doubt they have the same scruples as Iran (which is not much anyways) about using nukes.

Anonymous said...

Warm up the B-52's.

Ellen K said...

If there was any real justice, India and Israel would ally up and take out Islamabad and Iran. Pakistan has been involved in a shooting war along the Indian border for decades. Ask Indian natives about the Border Wars and it makes Palestine look like a school picnic. What is especially scary is that now we are talking about possibly four different nations which are in unstable, dangerous situations and they all have nuclear weapons. Do you really think those crazy mullahs will hesitate one moment to consider women and children of the infidels? Not hardly. It's better to ask forgiveness than permission in this case. God help us all.