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More Pakistani Terrorism in India

By Larry Johnson on July 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM in Current Affairs

The Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence agency (aka ISI) is at it again–three bombs exploded in Mumbai, India today killing at least 13 and wounding more than 80. In the past we’ve always labeled near simultaneous bombs as an “Al Qaeda” tactic. Wrong. It is not Al Qaeda, it is a fingerprint of Pakistan’s ISI. The bagmen for this terrorist attack is most likely the Lashkar Tayyiba aka Army of the Pure aka LET. LET is based, funded and trained by Pakistan. Period.

India now has causus belli towards Pakistan. It is time for the United States and the rest of the world to line up squarely behind India and draw a line in the sand with Pakistan. Pakistan is a terrorist state and is responsible for more acts of terrorism than Iran, Syria and Libya combined.

Don’t get me wrong. There is a sizeable minority in Pakistan that are pro-West and eschew terrorism. They are urbane, cultured and refined. But there also are the thugs and murderers in the Army and the Inter Services Intelligence agency who are fueled by a vision of radical Islam and a fear of India and the Shias.

Nail ‘Em Ups piece covers the first step of the United States in moving towards a new, potentially hostile, relationship with Pakistan. We can no longer afford to ignore Pakistan’s facilitation of terrorism. Its hands are bloody.

Pakistan’s military crazies are trying to put a brave face on the loss of the US aid. They are threatening to go to China. Super!! Fucking go. Let the Chicoms eat this shit sandwich. Do you really think China is eager to pony up hundreds of millions of dollars for the Pak military? Hell no. China will be happy to sell Pakistan what Islamabad can pay for, but the Pakis are not sitting on a mountain of cash.

Time has come for the U.S. to recall its Ambassador to Pakistan. This will send a tough, harsh message to the Paki military. We cannot continue to pretend that Pakistan is a genuine ally in the war on Islamic extremism. It is not. It is now Pakistan’s task to figure out what it wants to be–a terrorist sponsoring state or a civilized nation. Stark but simple.

  • murray

    Slightly O/T; – Larry:
    So Karzai’s brother gets assassinated.  This is the brother who holds together Karzai’s southern operation.  Without this brother/kingpin, Karzai’s entire (corrupt) administration is in jeopardy.

    Who killed Karzai’s brother?

    This brother spent some time in Chicago as a  “businessman/restauranteur”.

    I’d love to see the dots connected on this one.

    • murray

      Correction:  We know that the triggerman was a longtime associate/”bodyguard”, but no way he was acting alone, IMO

  • Mister Natural

    There is a question of some $800,000,000 that we planned to give to Pock-i-stan, but are withholding. 

    I suggest that we give it to INDIA instead, with the proviso that they spend at least half of it kicking the Paki’s in the nuts…

  • Anonymous

    I’ll have Pak-foo young if it’s on the menu otherwise, well said LJ.
    Still a very dangerous undertaking by the dark side of the ISI….
    Hell of a thing India contemplates…
    I always thought a shit sandwich was for other people… The US being the mayo doesn’t help the pickle taste any better.

    • Mister Natural

      >>> I always thought a shit sandwich was for other people..

      “Life is an open-faced shit sandwich: the more Bread you have, the less shit you have to eat.”

  • PTAB01

     In all Honesty even the everyday average civilian persons are a tad deranged . . . Every issue is laced by conspiracy Every country seeks it’s submission

  • Ferd_Berfle

    Perhaps That One can talk Pock-ee-ston into submission. I know after about 15 or so minutes of his tinny-sounding drivel, I feel compelled to cry “uncle”.

  • Ferd_Berfle

    What I wonder is when the Indians will have had more than enough and give it back to Pakistan in kind.

  • candymarl buster4u

    Totally OT:

    I am a grandma again!

    • Ferd_Berfle

      Congratulations to you and Custis.

    • candymarl buster4u

      She is the most beautiful little girl on the planet (next to me of course).

      Mother and baby healthy and doing fine.

      Custis!  I think he passed out.

    • Anonymous

      Grats! best to yours. :)

  • Fygsmom

    Larry is dead right!  It is time to abandon Pakistan to its fate.  The people have spoken and being respectors of democratic rule…..

    We need to line up behind India and let the chips fall where they will.  Pakistan needs the butt kicking that is due them.  Perhaps it will shake the situation up enough that rational voices can be heard for the first time since Mahatma Ghandi lead the subcontinent to independence from Great Britain.

    China has no patience for muslim aggitatiors–just look at the brutal response from China during the Olympics when the muslim separatists attacked a remote area in western China!

    China will not stand for this kind of nonsense.  Only Americans care about their culture and theoretical frame of reference.  The reality is China would insist on civil behavior.

  • Anonymous

    “Pakistan’s military crazies are trying to put a brave face on the loss of the US aid. They are threatening to go to China.”

    Yes–the Chinese Communists, who felt threatened by the gentle Tibetan  Buddhists, are going to love romancing a country full of militant Islamists with nuclear weapons….

    • Ferd_Berfle

      Really. If the Chinese think the North Koreans are nutjobs, they should just wait until they have to deal with some 7th century goat*******.

      • Docelder

        We have their “son of a goat herder” right here. 

  • Anonymous

    I can’t stop marveling at how much better our partnership with Pakistan has become since they did away with that military dictatorship.  /snark

    It seems as if once these Muslim countries attain political freedom, the crazies take over.  I suppose once the “people” win their freedom in Syria, they’ll storm the border with Israel.

    I think I prefer military discipline to mob rule and loose cannons.

    • Jwrjr

      “and loose cannons.”  Should that be “and loose nukes”?

      • Anonymous

        Yes, we definitely don’t want them to LOSE any LOOSE nukes to terrorists who might LOOSE them upon the world, causing millions of innocents to LOSE their lives to these LOOSE-knit groups of Islamic fundamentalist LOSERS.

        • candymarl buster4u

          Steve,

          Alliteration is a thing of beauty. Bravo.

        • er1

          Are these people so ingnorant that they don’t understand the word ‘retaliation’.