[Peace-discuss] End the war against pakistan

C. G. Estabrook galliher at illinois.edu
Fri Sep 24 13:35:30 CDT 2010


  A major goal of US policy in the Mideast for years has been the control of 
Pakistan, where we originally encouraged jihadism and the development of nuclear 
weapons in violation the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The administration's question is whether the authorities in Pakistan are "honest 
politicians" in the sense defined by Lincoln's Secretary of War at the outbreak 
of the Civil War: "An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay 
bought."

The Obama administration is enforcing its arrangements in the way it seems to 
prefer, by killing people:

      http://news.antiwar.com/2010/09/23/cia-expanded-us-ground-war-into-pakistan/

(with links).


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