Zimbabweans are hardcore. They dont care about terrorists. They got worse crap to deal with at home.
The difference between Pakistan and many other "terrorist havens" is that the Pakistani intelligence apparatus - the ISI - is itself the terrorist. The ISI was built up by the West to do "useful terrorist work for the West" in the late 1950s. The job done, the ISI now does "useful terrorist work for the crazies who run the ISI" (basically killing Shias, Jews, and Indians). This should have been expected. It always happens when you arm, fund or give power to crazy people. So the Pakistani state is itself the terrorist, even if the government denies it. Western aid to Pakistan to stem local terrorism, only fuels further problems, because the ISI is itself corrupt (and though it hates the West's enemy, Iran, it loves the West's enemy, the Alqueda and Taliban). But the self-defeating merry go round is enormously profitable, so who cares?
From NY Post last month: "Pakistan and the United States moved closer to a billion-dollar defense deal this week, after US authorities notified Congress of a proposal to supply aircraft, weapons and missiles to sharpen up Pakistan’s counterterrorism efforts.
US ally Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 180 million people, is fighting a Taliban insurgency in its northwest, a separatist insurgency along its Iranian border in the west, and has a heavily militarized and disputed border with India in the east."
And from Guardian: "[...] for reasons that had nothing to do with the interests of Pakistan itself, America funded and armed Pakistani fundamentalists to fight the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. The border areas were (and still are) awash with American weapons, the political class was showered in cash to aid the cause, and the Pakistani army and secret services given their heart's desire so long as they toed the line. The interests of the Pakistani people was never a factor of importance for any of the players involved in this deadly game, which allowed Saudi money to pay for fundamentalists to give the children of the poor the only semblance of education they were ever going to get.
Then, of course, came the Taliban and the whole merry go round entered another phase. And now we are here and the common man cannot help but notice that Americans are playing deadly video games in the Northern borders and seem to have carte blance to kill Pakistanis at will. Pakistan's military and political leaders have betrayed their country, but I am afraid America has played a significant role in the destablising of the country, and seems incapable of understanding that you can't create facts on the ground and then expect them to go away when inconvenient. The "greatest democracy on earth" acts with all the finesse of playground bully, and still its admirers scream that it is all the fault of the powerless."
The difference between Pakistan and many other "terrorist havens" is that the Pakistani intelligence apparatus - the ISI - is itself the terrorist. The ISI was built up by the West to do "useful terrorist work for the West" in the late 1950s. The job done, the ISI now does "useful terrorist work for the crazies who run the ISI" (basically killing Shias, Jews, and Indians). This should have been expected. It always happens when you arm, fund or give power to crazy people. So the Pakistani state is itself the terrorist, even if the government denies it. Western aid to Pakistan to stem local terrorism, only fuels further problems, because the ISI is itself corrupt (and though it hates the West's enemy, Iran, it loves the West's enemy, the Alqueda and Taliban). But the self-defeating merry go round is enormously profitable, so who cares?
From NY Post last month: "Pakistan and the United States moved closer to a billion-dollar defense deal this week, after US authorities notified Congress of a proposal to supply aircraft, weapons and missiles to sharpen up Pakistan’s counterterrorism efforts.
US ally Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 180 million people, is fighting a Taliban insurgency in its northwest, a separatist insurgency along its Iranian border in the west, and has a heavily militarized and disputed border with India in the east."
And from Guardian: "[...] for reasons that had nothing to do with the interests of Pakistan itself, America funded and armed Pakistani fundamentalists to fight the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. The border areas were (and still are) awash with American weapons, the political class was showered in cash to aid the cause, and the Pakistani army and secret services given their heart's desire so long as they toed the line. The interests of the Pakistani people was never a factor of importance for any of the players involved in this deadly game, which allowed Saudi money to pay for fundamentalists to give the children of the poor the only semblance of education they were ever going to get.
Then, of course, came the Taliban and the whole merry go round entered another phase. And now we are here and the common man cannot help but notice that Americans are playing deadly video games in the Northern borders and seem to have carte blance to kill Pakistanis at will. Pakistan's military and political leaders have betrayed their country, but I am afraid America has played a significant role in the destablising of the country, and seems incapable of understanding that you can't create facts on the ground and then expect them to go away when inconvenient. The "greatest democracy on earth" acts with all the finesse of playground bully, and still its admirers scream that it is all the fault of the powerless."
![[Image: !cid_02b101c99cb7%24e4573b00%2413fa7893%40RoomsNet.jpg]](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vswItMcixyU/Sa5hWPb8MfI/AAAAAAAAAOk/PSaxj0MsiYA/s400/!cid_02b101c99cb7%24e4573b00%2413fa7893%40RoomsNet.jpg)
