* CHANGE! Now even the Guardian is mocking Obama.
Ralph Peters, NYP
NO matter how gently you pet a snake, it’s not going to love you back. And faith-fueled fanatics always show their fangs in the end.
Nobody seems to learn. Again and again, states imagine that they can use and control Islamist extremists. Then the terrorists turn against their “masters.”
That’s what happened Monday in Pakistan, when Muslim militants brazenly struck a police academy near the Indian border — far from the lawless tribal regions. The terrorists killed seven cops and two civilians. Nearly a hundred officers suffered wounds during the siege.
The terrorists blew themselves up, rather than be captured. They knew Allah would welcome them. The one captured fanatic meant to die.
Pakistan’s homegrown jihadis began with local takeovers in the back country. In response, the government — which had backed the Taliban in the hope of controlling Afghanistan — tried to cut deals.
But the deals only helped the extremists, ceding them territory. Their attacks spread to major cities, such as Peshawar and Quetta. Then terror crossed the Indus River into the heartland. Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel suffered a catastrophic bombing. Even Sri Lanka’s visiting cricket team was marked for death.
Now the terrorists have reached right across Pakistan to mount a frontal assault on a police academy. Give ‘em credit — that took guts.
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