The huge scale of Pakistan's complicity
The Globe and Mail, July 30, 2010
(Thanks to WikiLeaks, the involvement of Inter-Services Intelligence in the Afghan conflict is now obvious, argues Chris Alexander, Canada's former ambassador to Afghanistan. )
Both Afghanistan and Pakistan are now in the grip of a single escalating conflict, punching eastward from Khyber Pakhtunwa (the former Northwest Frontier Province) into Punjab's heartland, as well as westward toward Kabul, Kandahar and Kunduz. .. As a direct consequence, reconciliation has failed to get off the ground: the Pakistan-based Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan – the official name for the Taliban and its allies – clearly prefer to fight. (Full Article)
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Special Report
'The Sun in the Sky: the relationship between Pakistan's ISI and Afghan insurgents'
June 2010 --"Taliban commanders and a wider group of Afghans close to the insurgency believe that the highest levels of Pakistan's government are actively involved in protecting and sustaining the insurgency presents a great challenge to senior Pakistani civilian and military officials to demonstrate their commitment to reaching a peace settlement." (Full Report)
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier _of_ the Queen!
-- Rudyard Kipling
http://newsforreal.com/My friend Steve Pizzo at his website had the above, along with the lead-in paragraphs that I will paste per protocol, IOW, only 4 paragraphs from it here. More later:
Secrets Kill Too
Part Two
"If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."
Kipling
"Much has been said this week about the wisdom, or lack thereof, of the WikiLeaks Af/Pak war secret document dump.
Critics claim the exposure will cost lives. Supporters – count me one – believe that history argues far more convincingly that millions of lives have been lost because of secrets, that should never have been kept secret in the first, because they were flawed, wrong or just plain false. Keeping such secrets meant no one could vet them, no one could compare them to the facts on the ground guaranteeing that even the most transparent lies remained unassailable.
So, for those whining about WikiLeaks spilling the beans on the Af/Pak war fiasco I say, go ahead, show proof of all the dead informants you have, And we'll produce historical records proving our contention that some secrets are more deadly -- FAR more deadly.
Oh look -- we win..."
Hands off my Social Security!
Hands off Latin America!
Just my dos centavos
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