Taliban are ‘patriots,’ says Pakistani Army official

Just to get everyone back up to speed (since the msm seems to prefer distracting us with more Natalie Holloway stories or political smears about an irrelevant Palin)…

-Pakistan is America’s ally. Without them, the US could not wage war in Afghanistan, hunt Osama Bin Laden, and devastate Al Queda’s leadership core. Most of the Al Queda who have been killed/captured since the 911 attacks have been killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and in Pakistan. Love em or hate em….the Saudis and Pakistanis do run up a respectable tally & deserve thanks for that.

-Pakistan has problems. They’ve got nuclear weapons, an itchy trigger finger for launching against India (lest we forget that they’ve been on the brink of nuclear war several times), the country has hundreds of thousands of people willing to be terrorists, and they’ve got those tribal areas where sovereignty exists only on a map.

-The Taliban who took over Afghanistan when the Soviets and Americans abandoned it were backed by Pakistani intelligence as well as Al Queda. Even today, there are innumerable love connections between our ally’s intelligence services and our enemies (the Al Queda network of terrorist groups).

OK, now take those three things and add in the timeline of recent events.

-The US has been pre-emptively, unilaterally, bombing Al Queda leaders in the allegedly-sovereign tribal areas of Pakistan (a sovereign area is one where the government’s rule of law exists, but there is no Pakistani control over these areas=no real sovereignty beyond a line on a map.)

-NEXT, add in these highly publicized terror attacks from an Al Queda group backed directly and in several ways (confirmed by multiple sources in India, US, UK, etc) by the Pakistani Army, Navy, intelligence services and more.

-Now toss in President-elect Obama’s blank check, public permission slip for nuclear-armed India to attack nuclear-armed Pakistan at a time when both nations have their armed forces at a wartime alert level.

I invite you all to draw your own conclusions as we draw closer and closer to a regional nuclear war (again), and to the Inauguration Day for a man with zero foreign policy experience, a national security team without unity of direction, purpose, or the ability to tell their boss he needs to shut up. Me, I think India would be smart to let their very capable intelligence services deal with the Pakistani ISI in terms of retaliation. However, it’s unlikely that such an action would satisfy the angry population of India, and any action that will do so is bound to have equal effect towards enraging the population of Pakistan. Only the hope that cooler heads will prevail can change the direction of this growing crisis sparked by 10 guys with rifles. Sadly, as that need for cooler heads grows, we get a President-elect who can’t help but babble on with hot air that fans the flames rather than cools them.