Ya got nothing else now that Romeny's your nominee? So long.

Though "she's" up rather late. Drunk dialing, maybe?

Why would we apologize for them? Don't those Pakistanis appreciate how exceptionally exceptional we are in the United States? And after all we've done for them, the ingrates.

We need to extricate ourselves post haste.

Our troops are supposed to be out of Afghanistan in 2014, and then what for Kabul?

We're fighting the Taliban to the bitter death, and trying desperately to negotiate something with them.

We've given the Pakistanis billions to help us out against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, but they're running their own game, aiding and abetting insurgents based in the NWFP who attack Afghan and NATO forces. It's like we're paying for all sides in this war.

And now the Pakistanis have their own insurgency with the Pakistani Taliban.

And we won't stop dropping drones on the territory of our (sort of) allies, the Pakistanis.

This whole thing is bad, bad joke.

And we keep killing and generating people who wnat to kill us. What's not to like?

Many older commanders in the Taliban were once commanders in the Mujahadeen when they were fighting the Soviet Red Army. They won that war. The Red Army didn't have home field advantage like the Mujahadeen fighters did, and the US army doesn't either.

It is entirely a creation of Pakistani ISI and most of the Taliban foot soldiers are active duty Pakistani military.

The solution to Afghanistan lies in an annihilation of Pakistani military-ISI complex and stomping on any ambitions Pakistan may have of being militarily relevant. This will divert more funds to the economic development and well-being of the Pakistani people -- if they chhose to remain one nation sans military.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120427/jsp/foreign/story_15424630.jsp


Islamabad, Apr 26: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday convicted Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of contempt of court but gave him a token punishment of less than even two minutes in a case that could see him stepping down as a fall out to "willfully flouting, disregarding and disobeying the court's direction.

"The accused Syed Yousuf raza Gilani, prime Minister of Pakistan/Chief Executive of the federation is found guilty of and convicted for contempt of court," Judge Nasirul Mulk, who headed the seven-judge panel that heard the contempt case, said in a short order.

Gilani, who became Prime Minister after his Pakistani Peoples Party (PPP) came to power in March 2008, was charged with contempt in February over his refusal to order re-opening of corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari in Swiss courts.

Gilani had pleaded not guilty and opted to defend himself in the case, which can weaken his government aiming to complete its five year tenure in March 2013

The Pakistani politicians may be feckless feudalists, but those generals have a crazed, paranoid ideology, and they have control over the nukes.