I guess there are things us rubes just shouldn't know.
"Pakistan pursues mediation role in Afghan talks; Aims to preserve its influence once US has departed" by Jane Perlez, New York Times | February 10, 2010
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan has told the United States it wants a central role in resolving the Afghan war and has offered to mediate with Taliban factions who use its territory and have long served as its allies, US and Pakistani officials said.
Yeah, wouldn't want any of that peace talk making it into the war paper.
And oh, yeah:
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
The TALIBAN was established under U.S. AUSPICES?
Were whose allies?
We can "LIVE WITH THAT?"
Well, I SURE CAN as long as the KILLING STOPS -- especially since (sorry) I NO LONGER BELIEVE the LIES PROMOTED by my WAR-MONGERING, MUSLIM-HATING, AGENDA-PUSHING AmeriKan PRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course, it's a GOOD THING American missiles have "liberated" them from your ickey-pooh men and children, right?!!
The offer, aimed at preserving Pakistan’s influence in Afghanistan once the Americans leave, could both help and hurt US interests as Washington debates reconciling with the Taliban.
That has to be one of the quietest debates ever because I've seen or heard nothing of it. I mean, this article didn't even make the newspaper.
Pakistan’s army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, made clear Pakistan’s willingness to mediate at a meeting late last month at NATO headquarters with top US military officials, a senior US military official familiar with the meeting said.
I'll bet that didn't go over too well, especially as the western butchers are gearing up for another war crime.
It is a departure from Pakistan’s previous reluctance to approach the Taliban....
They cut like three peace deals with them in the past so WTF you talking about, MSM? They act like we were born yesterday to us American readers! This is why no one buys or believes them anymore.
So far, the United States has been more eager to push Pakistan to fight the Taliban than to negotiate with them, and has not endorsed Pakistan’s new approach.
Yeah, everyone knows what we are about.
The Pakistani offer makes clear that any stable solution to the war will have to take into account Afghanistan’s neighbors in a region where Pakistan, India, China, Iran, and others jostle for power.
The Grand Chessboard thing, huh?
Pakistani officials familiar with Kayani’s thinking said that even as the United States adds troops to Afghanistan, he has determined that the Americans are looking for a fast exit.
I wish it were true but I don't think it is. If we really wanted that we would have found it by now.
What the Pakistanis can offer is their influence over the Taliban networks of Jalaluddin and Siraj Haqqani, whose forces US commanders say are the most lethal battling US and NATO soldiers.
Ah, yes, the Haqqani network:
"Haqqani.... credited with introducing suicide bombing to the region.... cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work.... He may have had a role in expediting the escape of Osama Bin Laden.... In July 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistan officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Haqqani. Haqqani has been accused of involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul...."
Isn't that something, readers?
From their stronghold in Pakistan’s tribal area of North Waziristan, the Haqqanis exert sway over large parts of southern Afghanistan and have staged major terrorist attacks in Kabul, US officials say. They are close allies of Al Qaeda.
You mean, "Al-CIA-Duh," don't you, NYT?
Related: New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
Oh, NYT!!!!!!
But they also have long ties to Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies who have protected them inside Pakistani territory.
Getting TIRED of the DOUBLE-TALKING DOUBLE-CROSSES and such, readers?
I sure as hell am.
In return for trying to rein in the Haqqanis, Pakistan will be looking for ways to stem the growing Indian presence there, Pakistani and US officials said....
I'm starting to see why the Globe didn't put this in print.
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Related: You Have to Get Up Pretty Early in the Morning to Fool a Pakistani
Well, they do have to rise before dawn to pray.
