Pak War
Offensive looming, as 15,000 Pak soldiers mass for assault. “It’s not Iraq but it’s getting worse.” AP.
Roggio at Long War Journal with details, background on Swat, where the Taliban vs. Pak Army fight has spilled out of the tribal areas.
Meanwhile, 96 killed in sectarian clashes.
Negroponte sticks around, tells Mush to lift the emergency.
Topics: Pakistan
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:08 am on Sunday, November 18, 2007
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November 19th, 2007 at 5:58 am
The chickens are coming home to roost in D.C. and in Pakistan.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Sad, but true.
Mush is in a predicament. Yield power to Benazir Bhutto, the Harvard-educated darling of the left and the media, and you either get old-time Pak corruption, or the Taliban overthrowing the Bhutto regime and it’s back to 2001 all over again. Seize power and establish martial law (which is precisely what this is, not “a state of emergency”), and you get the world worried that Mush gets overthrown, and the Taliban not only seizes power, but gets nuclear goodies to give to Al Qaeda/Iran/highest bidder, to toss at Israel and elsewhere AND it’s back to 2001 all over again.
If Mush had any common sense, he’d resign not just from the Army, but from the Presidency, lift martial law, and put someone who hasn’t been handpicked or part of the bad old days. That won’t happen in the short term, but if the Pakistanis are restive enough, it’ll happen nonetheless.