Waziristan, Pakistan, Bin Laden and Nukes
My husband just complained to me that Barack Obama is getting on the Go After The Terrorists bandwagon, which in my husband's opinion shows him to be just another opportunist, saying whatever will grab a few swing votes.
I pointed out to my husband that John Kerry during the 2004 campaign also urged pursuit of Osama Bin Laden, in the places where Osama Bin Laden hides, and that Obama's stance is not different.
And then I explained to my politically naive husband that there are problems nobody talks about in public. Everybody who was really paying attention knew in 2001 that the Taliban in Afghanistan had support in the Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, and would take refuge there. All you had to do to know that was read Pepe Escobar's columns in Asia Times Online.
The US can't find Osama Bin Laden, and the US can't attack in the northwestern tribal areas of Pakistan, because most Pakistanis are sympathetic to Bin Laden. If such an attack were made Musharraf's military dictarship would be overthrown...and atomic weapons, large ones, would be in the hands of Bin Laden.
I pointed out to my husband that John Kerry during the 2004 campaign also urged pursuit of Osama Bin Laden, in the places where Osama Bin Laden hides, and that Obama's stance is not different.
And then I explained to my politically naive husband that there are problems nobody talks about in public. Everybody who was really paying attention knew in 2001 that the Taliban in Afghanistan had support in the Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, and would take refuge there. All you had to do to know that was read Pepe Escobar's columns in Asia Times Online.
The US can't find Osama Bin Laden, and the US can't attack in the northwestern tribal areas of Pakistan, because most Pakistanis are sympathetic to Bin Laden. If such an attack were made Musharraf's military dictarship would be overthrown...and atomic weapons, large ones, would be in the hands of Bin Laden.
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