WHO WANTS THE US TO 'ACT' NOW?
Pakistan is in unrest, no one is calm, the strategic delicate map [Afghanistan-Iran] a lions' den of extremists, plus an Islamic State with nukes, and/or how 'safe' they already are yet, it has been a mere week and we already hear drumbeats to "act", political writers/bloggers on the liberal spectrum, that usually cry out loud for any action by the US govt., all-of-a-sudden, now request a full US interference.Just as the far left critics of the Iraq war like to bring up again and again, how we [the US] had our hands full in scratching Saddam's back in the Iran-Iraq war.
OPEN SECRET OF 'UNHOLY ALLIANCE'
This argument and the like, has basically zero value, Does backing Saddam against the radical Mullahcracy of Iran mean we ever proclaimed or legitimized brutal Saddam-ism? or that anyone in the US government "loved" him?
Speaking of Iran, you can't go on without mentioning the [Jimmy] Carter factor/failure of pressuring the Shah way too much, that ultimately brought Iran to it's 'Islamic Revolution', which [now] puts the area if not the world in peril.
(IranianVoice.org - Carter Sold Out Iran 1977-1978, At the time, a senior Iranian diplomat in Washington observed, "President Carter betrayed the Shah and helped create the vacuum that will soon be filled by Soviet-trained agents and religious fanatics who hate America." Under the guise of promoting" human rights," Carter made demands on the Shah while blackmailing him with the threat that if the demands weren't fulfilled, vital military aid and training would be withheld. This strange policy, carried out against a staunch, 20 year Middle East ally http://www.iranianvoice.org/article774.html )
Let's not commit the same Iranian mistake in Pakistan, No! Musharraf is no Ghandi, not even a typical US, UK, Australian, Israeli, European, etc. leader, he is a typical [undemocratic] leader in the Islamic world (nor is Palestinian leader Fatah's Mahmoud Abbas a real moderate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, but trust me, You want much less a Hamas Caliphate), but we need him, the world needs him, call it an "unholy alliance", the alternative is not only worse, it's a catastrophe.
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