And Taking Names!

April 22nd, 2011 by zen

Ya Mullen Huzzah!  

About  goddamn  time ….

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  1. srv:

    April 22nd, 2011 at 3:45 am

    Whut?  Ah, didn’t want Gen. Pasha to stand you up this year, so you waited until afterwards to emote.  Just sign the aid check, mumble something about progress, and move along.  You know the drill.

  2. Mercutio:

    April 22nd, 2011 at 4:53 am

    It has been obvious for about a decade that "the central front on the war on Terror" has actually been Pakistan and the ISI in particular.   At this late date, the actual situation is much like a cancer that has been similarly neglected. 

  3. Pundita:

    April 22nd, 2011 at 5:06 am

    Pardon me while I faint dead away

  4. onparkstreet:

    April 22nd, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    According to a reuters link at SWC – by "davidfpo" – Pakistan is getting some drones. For help with counterinsurgency operations? Sure. Let’s go with that.
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    Michele Fluornoy was on Charlie Rose last night. From her answers, I take it the Obama administration is still going after the old, "we can change strategic priorities via our aid policies, even though it has never worked before."
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    – Madhu

  5. J. Scott:

    April 22nd, 2011 at 1:04 pm

    Of course, in the midst of this late indignation, we’ve sold/given the Paki’s 85 intel drones…

  6. zen:

    April 22nd, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    Baby steps. This is the first crack in the party line regarding Pakistan’s perfidy, the Paks have a lot of US officials who are vested in kicking the can down the road

  7. toto:

    April 22nd, 2011 at 2:51 pm

    Over at Pat Lang’s place, F.B. Ali has a very different take on the whole situation:
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    http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/04/somethings-happening-fb-ali.html
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    As often, the exact same set of facts can give rise to very different narratives.

  8. onparkstreet:

    April 23rd, 2011 at 12:24 am

    Fair enough, zen 🙂
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    And now, a break from all of this. I am "doing the work," as Steven Pressfield advises….
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    – Madhu

  9. M1:

    April 23rd, 2011 at 6:38 am

    He could have made the same comments (albeit for alternative purposes) any time during the last seven years and they would have been fitting. I guess we all know why he’s dropping (publicly) them now rather than sooner;)