Friday, May 6, 2011

Classic Busted Tactic

That American helicopters could fly into Pakistan, carrying a team to kill the world’s most wanted terrorist and then fly out undetected has produced a stunned silence from the military and its intelligence service that some interpret as embarrassment, even humiliation.
There is no doubt that the raid has provoked a crisis of confidence for what was long seen as the one institution that held together a nation dangerously beset by militancy and chronically weak civilian governments.

The aftermath has left Pakistanis to challenge their leadership, and the United States to further question an already frequently distrusted partner.
By Wednesday, members of Parliament, newspaper editorials and Pakistan’s raucous political talk shows were calling for an explanation and challenging the military and intelligence establishment, institutions previously immune to public reproach.
Some were calling for an independent inquiry, focused less on the fact that the world’s most wanted terrorist was discovered in their midst than on whether the military could defend Pakistan’s borders and its nuclear arsenal from being snatched or attacked by the United States or India.
“If these people are found to be incompetent, heads should roll,” said Zafar Hilaly, a prominent newspaper columnist.
Different questions were coming from Pakistan’s neighbors and Western allies, including the United States. In Congress, powerful lawmakers in charge of foreign military assistance delivered scathing assessments of the Pakistani Army as either incompetent or duplicitous, saying that renewed financial support was hardly guaranteed.
In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament it was unbelievable that the Pakistani authorities did not know that Bin Laden was hiding not far from the capital.
But the most urgent question of all is what to do about it, and whether the United States should continue to invest in a Pakistani military whose assurances that it does not work with terrorists carry less weight than ever.
Pakistani officials, who feel betrayed by the United States for not informing them in advance about the raid, are responding more defensively by the day.
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So after swearing for years on end that Bin Laden wasn't in their country, Pakistan is in a compromising position.  Not only has Bin Laden been captured and killed in Pakistan, he was killed hiding in plain sight.  In a town that housed the equivalent of Westpoint.  Filled with retired Pakistani military types, miles from the capital, for at least 6 years.  But nobody knew? 

Now they're investigating how something like this could happen.  I can save them the trouble.  The final report is going to sound something like this:  "There was a rouge agent who did this horrible thing, and nobody else knew a thing.  He will be punished, you can rest assured of that." 

Pakistan is now "upset" the U.S. didn't notify them of the operation.  Ha!  You get caught in a position where it appears you have been harboring public enemy #1 all these years.  Hiding him from the people who have been giving you billions of dollars in aid and all types of military support.  They even hired a lobbyist to help them deny they knew anything!  Probably with some of that aid money the U.S. gave them I'd bet.

What else are you going to do but try and turn it around?  Tell them Eddie!


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