Posted by
bobcat on Sunday, September 21, 2008 10:06:23 PM
Pakistan like other countries in the neighborhood with problems the world recognizes, but like Bangladesh or Kashmir, share some of the same time with history, good and for what it's worth, trouble with the past and ugly to the present. So a major truck bomb to the capitals better hotel reinforces the terror mentallity that has revealed itself across the Muslim Belt from Tangiers to New Delhi.
" Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the attack was an attempt to "destabilize democracy" in Pakistan, which this year emerged from nine years of military rule, and destroy its already fragile economy." Is it any coincidence that at or near to election time wherever whether the USA that Putin decides it's advantagous to invade Georgia and rattle the EU about Russia's intentions...same the Muslim hatefuls bombing other Muslims. It appears that with the apparent "win" of the hearts and security of the Iraqi' free movement and "hope" of a better life, and Afghanistan with it's fits and starts recognizes a future, the Taliban and remnant AlQueda being marginalized back to it's Saudi sponsored madrassas in the Frontier of Pakistan that the War front is finally entering a final stage. The question isn't that Pakistan confronts the US troops crossing a 'sovereign border', but that Pakistan now knows that it has borders that are unruled and it is in their intersest to get with the job...just as we in America presume that the goverment is securing our borders with Mexico and Canada. Pakistan as a democratic country with newly in charge must exhibit that in charge means something beyond rhetoric, and finally the western frontier must become part of and in control from the capitol, Islamabad, and that the "War on Terror" is theirs to win or lose!