Pak Fort Overrun
Khyber Rifles, Fort Apache, take your pick, as Pakistan’s Frontier Constabulary is overrun by Pak Taliban. Wildly conflicting reports on whether they put up a fight or not, though.
Topics: Pakistan, Taliban, al qaeda, military
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:26 am on Thursday, January 17, 2008
6 Responses to “Pak Fort Overrun”
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January 17th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Better bring a lot of cash.
And some backbone. The Paks are gonna need that.
January 17th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
So, Pakistan, how do you like your madrassas now?
January 17th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
A bunch of them all together in one place. Like Musa Qala. Do the Paks have what it takes to do the same thing?
January 17th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I wish someone could explain the functional difference between Pakistan’s madrassas and our own colleges and universities that serve as little more than indoctrination centers for a mish mashed plethora of anti Americanist ideology.
Our leftards have taken up arms against our society and/or acted overtly and outrageously in assisting hostile foreign enemy during war before. They will again. This time, the weapons available will be, most likely, procured from biological laboratories and major tech research facilities.
What kind of story line could a decent novelist make around this situation? A professor at a state university makes public statements suggesting that humanity should be reduced by 90% of it’s current population and that a modified ebola, spread by air, is a good candidate. Said professor is also a supervisor for post doc program selection of students in his biology department. And, has announced that he’s seeking someone in the micro biology area of study for a program.
How long ago was it that it was considered impossible that someone would use our own civil air transport and a weapon against us?
What’s gonna be the next in the woulda, shoulda coulda for wailing, post catastrophe, about dot connecting?
January 18th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Grimmy, you are right to take note of the problems we face here, which are as dangerous, if not more so, than what is happening in Pakistan. I say more dangerous because it is the same thing that has kept us from conducting this war properly. Ideas matter, and sadly, the ideas that have disarmed us have had several generations to seep into the whole society. It is now to the point that even people who ought to know better, Condolezza Rice, for one, are doing things that undermine us just as much as anything George Soros and Cair can come up with. Just ridding the universities of latter day Marxists, and their progeny, the Transnationalists, won’t cure what ails the Republic. It is a start, but I have to wonder where we will find qualified people to replace them. We’ve lost many true scholars, with few left with the requisite knowledge to replace them.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Excellent points, Grimmy and salty. I often despair at these trends. Dr. Rice in particular has broken my heart; I had expected so much more.
On the positive side, one difference I see is the plurality of our society and the freedom of choice. One can choose not to undergo the indoctrination at our universities, and one can fight against it. (For example, I intend to speak to kids at the college I went to, ostensibly about writing, but I also hope to engage on the topic of the nature of the world and rattle some cages.) One can make a documentary (Indoctrinate U comes to mind) and spread it around the Internet. We still have the freedom to educate ourselves in this country and many of us are working actively to do so and to spread the truth just as fast as we can. Jules, for example.
I get very angry very fast about the topic of our terrible schools (beginning with kindergarten, where my own experience was one of immediate despair–I vividly remember how shocked I was when someone handed me a book called Dick and Jane; there was no plot and no beauty in the language; what kind of strange world was this, and why was I being subjected to it?). But I try to keep in mind that things evolve and that change takes a long time. I take a lot of hope from the Internet, where there is so much beautiful writing and so much serious and passionate information exchange. I have learned more over the past seven years since I started reading blogs than I ever learned in college. And found more scholars, too. So I am hopeful that we are finding the energy and intelligence that will refresh and revive our society right here.