Monday, July 21, 2008

Is Pakistan Shifting to Radical Islam?


I just this headline from the Long War Journal: Pakistan signs peace accord in Orakzai tribal agency.

What is in a name? Well when you read Orakzai tribal agency, you might as well be reading Mohammedan tribes in Pakistan that support or are part of the Taliban. Yep, that is the same Taliban that hosted Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Yep, that is the same al Qaeda responsible for a radical Islamic attack on American soil that killed and injured thousands of American citizens.

I don’t know the appearance you view in this peace accord; however I see Pakistan creating a wider gulf for al Qaeda and the Taliban to cross the Afghan/Pakistan border to shoot at American troops, terrorize anti-Taliban Sheiks and propagandize Afghan citizens to join the Taliban/al Qaeda cause. Add to this that Pakistan has let America know that it will not allow military strikes within Pakistan boarders targeting the enemy responsible for the murder of thousands of non-military American citizens.

I see this as the Pakistan government either caving in to the designs of the theo-political radical Islam of the Taliban and al Qaeda or covertly (i.e. unofficially) beginning to side with the radical Islamic agenda.

Either way Americans have to understand a Mohammedan nation with nuclear WMD is in one way or another allowing or joining the Taliban/al Qaeda murdering transnational terrorist circle.

This makes handling Iran’s arrogant hubris vital to deal with. An American supported Israeli strike on Iran should occur. See how Iran responds: If Iran truly does what it has claimed it would; then bomb the military infrastructure out of existence. If Iran backs down, then pursue with great clarity the dismantling of Iran’s nuke program.

This will signal the Pakistan government the seriousness of America’s commitment to terminate terrorists in foreign lands thus swaying the anti-radical Islamic elements in their government to overshadow the pro-radical Islamic elements.

JRH 7/21/08

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