Comments on: Package from the Taliban http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/09/20/package-from-the-taliban/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:48:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Curtis http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/09/20/package-from-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-248324 Curtis Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:51:33 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=5370#comment-248324 Pakistan is a fascinating place and the Taliban are idiots. It's taken them ages to realize that our center of gravity resides in Pakistan's tacit and overt support for our efforts in Afghanistan. Now that Pakistan has adopted the other traditional government party; warlord followed by fickle contrarian thieves, followed by warlord, followed by fickle idiotic thieves, the game is going to get very interesting. With the ISI still supporting the Taliban, conclusive evidence that the mullahs support the taliban and no real army to speak of, it is the iron spine of the Pakistani government to hold the line and not deny us the use of their ports and roads. I very much believed Bush when he delivered his speech following 9/11 that if you were not with us you were against us. He was credible. One could believe he was sincere. With Obama, not so sure. I wonder if the people in Pakistan are looking at that explosion and thinking to themselves, "well, Spain got bombed one time by the taliban and pulled out of the war instantly and the Americans still do business with them, why don't we drop our support and see what happens next?" I can't believe that your spellchecker has the word taliban in it. Sure it's a proper noun describing proper bast@rds but honestly, it can spelled any ole phonetic way that you like. Oh, and that iron spine I was speaking of is only ever in evidence when the Pakistani government has decided on some irrevocable and irredeemably stupid course of action. Pakistan is a fascinating place and the Taliban are idiots. It’s taken them ages to realize that our center of gravity resides in Pakistan’s tacit and overt support for our efforts in Afghanistan. Now that Pakistan has adopted the other traditional government party; warlord followed by fickle contrarian thieves, followed by warlord, followed by fickle idiotic thieves, the game is going to get very interesting.

With the ISI still supporting the Taliban, conclusive evidence that the mullahs support the taliban and no real army to speak of, it is the iron spine of the Pakistani government to hold the line and not deny us the use of their ports and roads. I very much believed Bush when he delivered his speech following 9/11 that if you were not with us you were against us. He was credible. One could believe he was sincere. With Obama, not so sure.
I wonder if the people in Pakistan are looking at that explosion and thinking to themselves, “well, Spain got bombed one time by the taliban and pulled out of the war instantly and the Americans still do business with them, why don’t we drop our support and see what happens next?”

I can’t believe that your spellchecker has the word taliban in it. Sure it’s a proper noun describing proper bast@rds but honestly, it can spelled any ole phonetic way that you like.

Oh, and that iron spine I was speaking of is only ever in evidence when the Pakistani government has decided on some irrevocable and irredeemably stupid course of action.

]]> By: bc http://www.neptunuslex.com/2008/09/20/package-from-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-248297 bc Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:09:50 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=5370#comment-248297 Won't they just blame us? Their borders, their business and all that? Won’t they just blame us? Their borders, their business and all that?

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