Comments on: Pakistan: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth

By: Samantha

Samantha — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:24:00 +0000

What the US needs to do is stop giving $$$ to Pakistan. PERIOD! For one thing, the US is monetarily supporting a dictatorship. Musharraf wasn’t elected, he staged a coup against Pakistan’s democratically elected Mrs. Bhutto. Pakistan has been downhill ever since.
By declaring a so-called “emergency” Musharraf is enabling terrorism. Think about it…the only people being arrested are lawyers, judges, human rights leaders and moderate muslims, NOT the terrorists slaughtering and seizing rural Pakistanis’ and property.
What makes this situation so messed up is that Condoleeza and friends have known and been warned about Musharraf’s personal agenda from the very beginning, yet American taxpayers continue to pay for Pakistan’s military state.

By: Bruce Dixon

Bruce Dixon — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:35:00 +0000

Still the question remains, dear lady, what makes you imagine that the US military is even remotely the answer to anything going on in Pakistan, as you began this conversation by suggesting?

By: rikyrah

rikyrah — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:09:00 +0000

I’m not demonizing Mr. Musharraf. The demonizing is being done, unneccessarily to Iran – who isn’t remotely close to having Nukes. Pakistan HAS nukes – that’s not up for any kind of debate. There are some very hostile forces in Pakistan towards the USA. If the wrong hostile forces get in, come on now…they wouldn’t hesitate to give their friends a nuke.

By: Ochyming

Ochyming — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:01:00 +0000

Hug?

Isn‘t this demonization so quick, and why at this moment?
Doesn‘t the West want to put another puppet i charge?
Do you remember/informed how the CIA manipulated the then Iran cha, and for what?

Hug? hug?

By: Bruce Dixon

Bruce Dixon — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:44:00 +0000

"...whatever we have left of our Armed Forces, needs to be able to do something in Pakistan, in case it falls."

Whoa. I don't mean to be impolite, rkyrah, but what are you smoking? Just what do you imagine the US armed forces can DO in Pakistan? With 161 million people it's the 6th most populous nation in the world. The US armed forces could not even subjugate Iraq's mere 25 million, or the similar number who lived in Vietnam 40 years ago. Oh, and Pakistan has had nukes since about 1998.

And even if, in the dream world of empire, US ruling circles could impose their will on Pakistan, what gives them the right to?

And finally, since this is supposed to be a black viewpoint on politics and such, pray tell us how black folks will benefit from a US intervention in Pakistan? We all understand that Barack Obama has advocated an invasion of Pakistan to show hawkish white folks, military contractors and others that he's no wimpy liberal, and if I remember right, you have said you support the guy. But think about it. How on god's green earth can there be any good ending, any positive outcome for any US military intervention in Pakistan, just as there is none sight for Afhanistan or Iraq or Iran, and there was none for Vietnam?