Comments on: Pakistan’s slow submission to the Taliban http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/ Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:11:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: qidniz http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-305106 qidniz Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:57:28 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/?p=13010#comment-305106 <i>Well one couldn’t really think of a worse policy decision. It will hasten the demise of Pakistan. </i> Not before the US responds in the usual way. Watch for a brand new "stimulus package" of yet more "aid" to Pakistan. Islamabad is broke, and Uncle Obama will be glad to oblige. Well one couldn’t really think of a worse policy decision.

It will hasten the demise of Pakistan.

Not before the US responds in the usual way. Watch for a brand new “stimulus package” of yet more “aid” to Pakistan.

Islamabad is broke, and Uncle Obama will be glad to oblige.

]]> By: field http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-305028 field Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:04:32 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/?p=13010#comment-305028 Well one couldn't really think of a worse policy decision. It will hasten the demise of Pakistan. On the bright side, given the stakes are so high, should civil war erupt we might see a joint special forces operation by India and the US to take Pakistan out of the nuclear club. If that could be accomplished, it would be a marvellous step forward. Well one couldn’t really think of a worse policy decision.

It will hasten the demise of Pakistan.

On the bright side, given the stakes are so high, should civil war erupt we might see a joint special forces operation by India and the US to take Pakistan out of the nuclear club. If that could be accomplished, it would be a marvellous step forward.

]]> By: Josh Scholar http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-304953 Josh Scholar Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:18:36 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/?p=13010#comment-304953 <i>It’s that it’s not possible to push them forward a few hundred years. The Shah of Iran tried, it all collapsed. The Pakistanis have and will try and will implode on them as well.</i> I always feel like reminding nerds that Star Trek was fiction, that there's no reason to assume that societies necessarily progress. And certainly no reason to assume that physical analogies of position and rate apply. It’s that it’s not possible to push them forward a few hundred years. The Shah of Iran tried, it all collapsed. The Pakistanis have and will try and will implode on them as well.

I always feel like reminding nerds that Star Trek was fiction, that there’s no reason to assume that societies necessarily progress. And certainly no reason to assume that physical analogies of position and rate apply.

]]> By: phazelton80 http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-304942 phazelton80 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:46:21 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/?p=13010#comment-304942 Why exactly have the Taliban been successful in Swat Valley? Could Pakistan become Obama's Vietnam? Check out this week's Global Pulse episode at www.globalpulsetv.org for a compelling media analysis. Why exactly have the Taliban been successful in Swat Valley? Could Pakistan become Obama’s Vietnam? Check out this week’s Global Pulse episode at http://www.globalpulsetv.org for a compelling media analysis.

]]> By: mrs ben http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-304888 mrs ben Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:56:37 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/?p=13010#comment-304888 The Archbishop of Canterbury was reported in the paper today saying that he felt we were closer to introducing some elements of sharia law into the UK, since he has spoken to a number of "senior" people recently who agree with him. Let us be charitable and assume they said yes to get rid of the woolly old twit droning on about it. Quite how he feels sharia law on marriage and divorce can be reconciled with UK law remains to be seen. I think it is called squaring the circle. But what is sharia law? Is it just the Taliban's version or are there milder options? The Archbishop of Canterbury was reported in the paper today saying that he felt we were closer to introducing some elements of sharia law into the UK, since he has spoken to a number of “senior” people recently who agree with him.

Let us be charitable and assume they said yes to get rid of the woolly old twit droning on about it. Quite how he feels sharia law on marriage and divorce can be reconciled with UK law remains to be seen. I think it is called squaring the circle.

But what is sharia law? Is it just the Taliban’s version or are there milder options?

]]> By: thomas k http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-304801 thomas k Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:36:23 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/?p=13010#comment-304801 Johan W. You have been missed. Any chance of more frequent comments from you? Johan W. You have been missed.
Any chance of more frequent comments from you?

]]> By: Dave F http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-304780 Dave F Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:54:58 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/?p=13010#comment-304780 Pakistan is still bedevilled by feudalism, which results in ample and willing cannon fodder for al-Qaeda. I think it is where the phrase "guided democracy" originated, to explain how a civilian government would be answerable to the military. Pakistan is still bedevilled by feudalism, which results in ample and willing cannon fodder for al-Qaeda. I think it is where the phrase “guided democracy” originated, to explain how a civilian government would be answerable to the military.

]]> By: Johan W http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-304727 Johan W Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:10:11 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/?p=13010#comment-304727 Pakistan is not really falling to the Taleban - the Islamists have white anted the regime from whithin via the ISI since at least Zia al Huq. It may well be true that a majority of Pakistani's would not welcome the imposition of Taleban rule, but the toxic cocktail of denial, Third worldism, paranoia and delusion presided over one of the more feckless ruling classes in the world means that there is little with which to resist such an outcome. Pakistan is an object lesson in the dangers of believing that "Moderate" Islamism can be used to combat the wilder kind. Pakistan is not really falling to the Taleban – the Islamists have white anted the regime from whithin via the ISI since at least Zia al Huq. It may well be true that a majority of Pakistani’s would not welcome the imposition of Taleban rule, but the toxic cocktail of denial, Third worldism, paranoia and delusion presided over one of the more feckless ruling classes in the world means that there is little with which to resist such an outcome.

Pakistan is an object lesson in the dangers of believing that “Moderate” Islamism can be used to combat the wilder kind.

]]> By: Clap Hammer http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-304725 Clap Hammer Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:54:30 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/?p=13010#comment-304725 Jako - Where are the nukes kept? Hopefully nearer the Indian border and therefore further away from the Taliban nuts. Yes. That is my basic worry. Pakistan is a basket case. Pakistan is a failed state and must have its nuclear weapons destroyed. When this is done, I will let them stew in their own soup. They will have to solve it by themselves BUT, without nuclear weapons to threaten anyone. It's only hope is to discard Islam and adopt ........... Jako – Where are the nukes kept? Hopefully nearer the Indian border and therefore further away from the Taliban nuts.

Yes.

That is my basic worry.

Pakistan is a basket case.

Pakistan is a failed state and must have its nuclear weapons destroyed. When this is done, I will let them stew in their own soup. They will have to solve it by themselves BUT, without nuclear weapons to threaten anyone.

It’s only hope is to discard Islam and adopt ………..

]]> By: Fabian from Israel http://hurryupharry.org/2009/02/15/pakistans-slow-submission-to-the-taliban/comment-page-1/#comment-304722 Fabian from Israel Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:30:58 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/?p=13010#comment-304722 Nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons.

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