Back in July of last year I started hollering about the combination of Pakistan, its nukes, and the Taleban. Now we have headlines
of “Nuclear fears prompt Pakistan to prepare attack on Taleban” because the Taleban is doing exactly what I said they would and what our government has been steadily worrying about, which is, trying to take over the whole country of Pakistan.
The Taleban want to get hold of those atomic bombs and use them against India and Israel, and they’re backed by Iran which is also striving hard to develop their own atomic bombs.
Because we have steadily attempted to defuse and control this mess through diplomacy, instead of taking drastic action to end it by bombing Iran back about 50 years and by wiping out the Taleban with a full-on invasion and bombing of the Taleban camps and strongholds in Pakistan, the situation is now very close to dire.
Violence is the language that Iran and the Taleban speak and the only one they understand. This is likewise true for the current leaders of Pakistan. All Islamic nations maintain control through violent suppression of the populace and they laugh at and ignore Western diplomacy. Yet we still see our Western leaders trying to smooth all this out with gentle words when only rapid military action will save the day.
Pakistans government recently ceded some territory to the Taleban, letting them inflict Sharia Law upon the hapless people living there, and it didn’t take them hardly any time at all to swell their ranks and spread out and become a danger to the very capital of Pakistan itself. The reason those leaders did this is because there are strong forces within the Pakistani government itself that are aligned with the Taleban. Pakistans spy agency is notoriously in bed with the Taleban and reports every plan of the government to act against it.
Now one of the following scenarios will take place. Pakistans leaders will direct the army to attack the Taleban full force, in an effort to save themselves, and this appears to be the case as “Thousands of Pakistani troops were massing for an assault on Taleban positions 65 miles from the country’s capital last night after giving the insurgents 24 hours to withdraw from their advanced positions or face attack.”
This, however is only after a “stern warning from American policymakers that Islamabad was doing too little to stem a growing militant insurgency. Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, accused Pakistan this week of “abdicating to the Taleban”, which “poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world”.
In other words, Pakistan’s leaders are doing the same fence walking dance they’ve been doing with us for years, in order to keep our aid money rolling in. They’re Muslims, they believe in the Koran, which tells them to obey a set of rules that’s called Sharia Law. These people aren’t against the Taleban, not at all. They see them as righteous Muslims, and they see us as filthy unbeliever invaders. Guess who they support the most? This is about power, about who gets to run the country, and has nothing to do with preventing the advance of terrorism, violence and the domination of Islam. If the current leaders can stay in power and give the Taleban a free rein, that’s exactly what they’ll do.
The next scenario is that this “massive attack” against the Taleban will do almost nothing, the Taleban will back off for awhile and secretly build up a massive force, quietly move in to Islamabad, the capitol, and to villages nearby, and then attack and take over Pakistan.
They’ll have plenty of assistance from factions within the government. They already do now.
Which brings us to the next scenario, of the United States launching an all out attack on Pakistan. The question is, are we going to have the sense to do this before the Taleban attack Islamabad or are we going to wait until after? Another possiblility is that we do nothing and let the Taleban take the country, just as we’ve done nothing about Iran.
No matter how you slice it, we either go to war in Pakistan or we let the Taleban have nuclear weapons. One or the other is inevitable.
Bear this in mind also: Israel is our vassal. Iran is Russia’s vassal. If Israel attacks Iran it’s the same as if we attacked Russia. Israel may be forced to attack Iran in spite of our demands that she lay down and die. At best, this will seriously feed into a new Cold War and at worst it will see Russia attacking one of our allies, most likely poor Poland. Then we’ll have another choice to make, do we defend Poland or trade Poland for Iran?
Golly gee, Maynard. Why can’t we all just get along?