The US & others working with Pakistan

[omarali50]

see http://www.brownpundits.com/the-saus...falling-apart/

[davidbfpo]

There is some pleasure in reading such phrases as this:

11 rockets were fired by miscreants at the police

Link:http://docs.brecorder.com/top-news/1...in-lyari-.html

One does wonder at some of the footage, taken on the police side of the "line", with plain-clothes police, some with head coverings, joining in the firing.

[omarali50]

On this blog, where people know such things, one can also note that shooting over a wall with an assault rifle (or an LMG) in the general direction of Lyari as all those policemen seem to be doing, is rather dumb.

[VCheng]

One could write a small thesis based on this photograph and its captions, I am quite sure:


What's the problem? by vcheng552000, on Flickr

[omarali50]

Vcheng, that looks photoshopped.

[VCheng]

Vcheng, that looks photoshopped.

No, the picture is from Gayari and believed authentic, only the captions were added later.

[davidbfpo]

Patrick Porter's forthright column that opens with:

THE conflict in Afghanistan has been Australia's longest war. Measured in time and complexity - if not in blood - it has been one of the hardest. But who or what have we been fighting?

The problem, allegedly, is the Islamist extremism that found a host in the world's poorest land. The solution is to empower this broken nation to govern and secure itself....For 10 years we have tried to combat poverty, corruption and state failure by birthing a strong Afghan government. Not an easy task in a country hard to govern from the centre, and where our favoured regime is an unloved kleptocracy.....But Afghanistan is not the centre of this war. This is primarily a war over - and against - Pakistan.

He ends with:

We wanted the war in Afghanistan to be about fighting one enemy within those borders. But we got an aggregation of other conflicts that spilled across borders, beyond our power to resolve. This may be the hardest lesson of all. Often the wars we want are not the ones we get.

Link:http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/soc...506-1y6yj.html

Patrick blogs on:http://offshorebalancer.wordpress.com