“The war in the tribal areas and Swat is an integral part of the crusade on Muslims across the world.” Not that his appeal has anything to do with Islam. “Qaeda’s Zawahri calls for Pakistani jihad,” from Reuters, August 28 (thanks to all who sent this in): DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s second-in-command on Friday […]
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Fitzgerald: “We Walked Away From Them Twice,” Or, What Exactly Does Robert Gates Know About Pakistan, And While We Are At It, What In God’s Name Does He Know About Islam? (Part Five)
Part One is here, Part Two here, Part Three here, and Part Four here. Gates spent his speech — see here — ignoring the nature of what Muslims learn about Infidels: Americans are Infidels, and the United States is the military leader of the Infidel camp, the Camp that begins, but does not end, with […]
Fitzgerald: “We Walked Away From Them Twice,” Or, What Exactly Does Robert Gates Know About Pakistan, And While We Are At It, What In God’s Name Does He Know About Islam? (Part Four)
Part One is here, Part Two here, and Part Three here. Iraq will turn out to be entirely ungrateful to the Americans. Everything that happens there will show that, when the Shi”a refuse to give away any their power, and the Sunnis refuse to acquiesce in the shift of power from them to the once-despised […]
Fitzgerald: “We Walked Away From Them Twice,” Or, What Exactly Does Robert Gates Know About Pakistan, And While We Are At It, What In God’s Name Does He Know About Islam? (Part Three)
Part One is here, and Part Two is here. We did not “walk away” from Pakistan. The government, that is, the military who essentially have always held power in Pakistan, took and took whatever aid they could cajole out of the Americans, and then always came back for more. They took whatever economic aid they […]
Fitzgerald: “We Walked Away From Them Twice,” Or, What Exactly Does Robert Gates Know About Pakistan, And While We Are At It, What In God’s Name Does He Know About Islam? (Part Two)
(Part One is here.) Does Robert Gates think it would have been better not to have expressed anger, or otherwise have shown Pakistan that there were limits to the kind of behavior of which it had been guilty for decades? When Congress passed the Pressler Amendment (named after Larry Pressler, of Harvard, Oxford, and the […]
Fitzgerald: “We Walked Away From Them Twice,” Or, What Exactly Does Robert Gates Know About Pakistan, And While We Are At It, What In God’s Name Does He Know About Islam? (Part One)
WASHINGTON: The Pakistani mistrust over US intentions has “˜some legitimacy” since the United States has walked away from that country twice in the last three decades, says US Defence Secretary Robert Gates. At a briefing at the Pentagon on Thursday afternoon, Mr Gates conceded that the US needed time to “˜rebuild trust” with the Pakistani […]
Pakistan: Suicide bombing kills 3, wounds 15 amid fighting between rival jihadist groups
“Peshawar is a frequent target.” “Three dead in Pakistan city suicide blast: police,” from Agence France-Presse, August 23: PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Three passers-by were killed and 15 injured Sunday in a suicide bombing in Pakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar triggered by an apparent feud between rival militant groups, police said. The attacker blew himself up […]
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: Pakistani Taliban chooses successor to Baitullah Mehsud
The Pakistani Taliban moves closer to resuming business as usual: threatening life and liberty. “Taliban appoints successor to militant chief Mehsud,” from Agence France-Presse, August 22: AFP – The Pakistan Taliban have appointed a successor to their feared leader believed to have been killed in a US missile strike, a militant commander said Saturday. American […]
General Petraeus in Pakistan for talks on equipping the Pakistanis
But what serious assurance does he have that Pakistan is no longer playing its double game? Are all the players of that game gone from the high levels of the Pakistani government? “U.S. general in Pakistan for talks on equipment,” by Adam Entous for Reuters, August 19: ISLAMABAD, Aug 19 (Reuters) – U.S. General David […]
Obama reaches out to Pakistani jihadists
“As a general proposition, democracy in Pakistan is fragile enough now that negotiating with people that some on the democratic side of the Pakistani spectrum would think themselves are terrorists strikes me as fairly risky.” That’s an understatement, Mr. Bolton. “Obama reaches out to Islamist parties in Pakistan,” by Adam Entous for Reuters, August 19 […]