The misplaced faith in Pakistan exhibited by many in Washington is not new; it has been going on for fifty years, ever since the first early infatuation, by various Dulles brothers and American generals, with fly-whisking ramrod-straight terry-thomas-moustachioed generals who kept assuring the Americans that “Islam is a barrier to Communism” and allowed themselves to […]
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Candidate Obama ripped Pakistan for “making peace treaties with the Taliban”
So what has happened in the nine months that Obama has been President to lead him to reverse this stand completely? And since we went into Afghanistan in the first place in order to fight the Taliban, and Obama now accepts a role for the Taliban in Afghanistan’s government, why are we increasing our military […]
Pakistan’s ISI giving Taliban members option of going to jail or joining jihad against India
Fiend, er, Friend and Ally Update. “Go to jail or join jihad against India: ISI tells surrendered Taliban,” by Vishwa Mohan for the Times News Network, October 7 (thanks to all who sent this in): NEW DELHI: In a new shift in tactics, Pakistan is planning to push as many as 60 “surrendered” Taliban into […]
U.S. generals: Between 2002 and 2008, Pakistan spent only $500 million of $6.6 billion in American aid on fighting jihadists
Perhaps that’s why the offer of $1.5 billion in aid was “peanuts,” and thus offensive: how can you carry out some quality graft with that little to work with? “Billions of U.S. aid to Pakistan diverted, India concerned,” by Kevin Jess for Digital Journal, October 5 (thanks to Alert): Only a fraction of the $6.6 […]
Report: Several of NY jihad suspect’s fellow travelers to Pakistan also back in U.S.
New York Jihad Plot Update. “Sources: Several who went to Pakistan with Zazi back in U.S.,” from CNN, October 4: (CNN) — Several people who traveled from New York to Pakistan last year with a man accused of plotting a terrorist attack have since returned to the United States, sources close to the investigation told […]
Pakistan: Muslim threats against Christians on the rise
It is no coincidence that this trend comes at the same time as pressure increases to enforce Islamic law, aided by the safe haven jihadists have in much of the country. This article speaks of “Talibanization” as if it were an irresistible force of nature, overlooking the ideological conditions that have made it possible for […]
U.S. triples aid to Pakistan, Pakistan sneers and calls it “peanuts,” wants more
The U.S. just tripled aid to Pakistan, despite its double game, and it still isn’t enough. Will anyone get a clue in Washington? What do you think? “Pakistanis Continue to Reject U.S. Partnership,” by Jane Perlez for the New York Times, October 1 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Even with the arrival of […]
Spencer: Why More Aid to Pakistan Won’t Work
In FrontPage this morning I discuss the recent increase of aid to Pakistan: Last Thursday the Senate voted to triple the amount of non-military aid to Pakistan to $1.5 billion annually. The money is supposed to go to build democracy and aid anti-terror efforts. “We should make clear to the people of Pakistan,” explained Senator […]
Pakistan: All students — Muslim and non-Muslim — required to study Islam
Pakistan is, of course, an Islamic Republic, but why is it that “there is no compulsion in religion” (2:256) seems only to be invoked by Islamic apologists in the West, and never where it could actually do some good for non-Muslims in an Islamic state? Hmmm, now why might that be? Islamic Tolerance Alert from […]
In Pakistan: Village of German jihadists, converts to Islam
The Telegraph refers to these converts as “white,” as if their race were something noteworthy. In reality, as I have stated here several billion times, the jihad is not a racial issue, despite the best efforts of the mainstream media, CAIR, and libelblogger Charles Johnson to make it into one. Anyone, of any race, can […]