Dont’ look now, but at a time when Egypt is has erupted, the Pakistani cabinet has just resigned. And, as the geniuses in Washington rattle sabers at Iran (a country that may get nuclear weapons someday), they are also sending billions of dollars to a corrupt and hated Pakistani government that rules a country that is a already a serious nuclear menace. The country’s president, Zardari, was described by Saudi King Abdullah (pot calling the kettle black?) in these words, “when the head is rotten, it affects the whole body”. Well, now that the “body” is gone, what will become of the head?
In 2008, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Makhdoom Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, who had served a six year sentence in prison for corruption, escaped an assassination attempt by the Taliban. A former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, who was, herself, accused of corruption, was less fortunate in 2007. How long before this country becomes a nuclear monster without a head?
“Opinion polls taken recently show that Americans are widely disliked and distrusted by Pakistanis. … a recent poll showed that 80 percent of Pakistanis believe their country should not cooperate with the United States in the war on terror. Only 2 percent believe the U.S. has “good relations with Pakistan.” In another poll, only 9 percent support U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and most Pakistanis believe “the U.S. is the greatest threat to their country.”
Unlike Vegas, what happens in Egypt, doesn’t necessarily stay in Egypt.
Comment by black swan — February 9, 2011 @ 7:50 am
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Dont’ look now, but at a time when Egypt is has erupted, the Pakistani cabinet has just resigned. And, as the geniuses in Washington rattle sabers at Iran (a country that may get nuclear weapons someday), they are also sending billions of dollars to a corrupt and hated Pakistani government that rules a country that is a already a serious nuclear menace. The country’s president, Zardari, was described by Saudi King Abdullah (pot calling the kettle black?) in these words, “when the head is rotten, it affects the whole body”. Well, now that the “body” is gone, what will become of the head?
In 2008, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Makhdoom Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, who had served a six year sentence in prison for corruption, escaped an assassination attempt by the Taliban. A former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, who was, herself, accused of corruption, was less fortunate in 2007. How long before this country becomes a nuclear monster without a head?
“Opinion polls taken recently show that Americans are widely disliked and distrusted by Pakistanis. … a recent poll showed that 80 percent of Pakistanis believe their country should not cooperate with the United States in the war on terror. Only 2 percent believe the U.S. has “good relations with Pakistan.” In another poll, only 9 percent support U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and most Pakistanis believe “the U.S. is the greatest threat to their country.”
Unlike Vegas, what happens in Egypt, doesn’t necessarily stay in Egypt.
Comment by black swan — February 9, 2011 @ 7:50 am
http://attempter.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/we-are-the-government-now/
Pakis are hip to Obama's string-pullers too. He might as well sport the same pin.
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