Originally posted by: Jaskalas
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: Jaskalas
Originally posted by: The Green Bean
The US is only making things worse by murdering innocents and making people hate them.
That does not apply to your military? Either you act against the Taliban and "murder innocents and make people hate you" or you do not act against them and permit the growth of the parasite among the population. Either way you lose.
As for your military, you do not think it is infected like the rest of your population? You have to wonder how many are sympathetic to the cause.
As I said, we don't bomb civilian targets and do not use air cover or artillery. We will not rout out the Taliban at the cost of our civilians. Perhaps you should murder those Americans that support the American war effort to ensure nobody goes on murder sprees from your country.
Nobody supports the Taliban and their ideology except very few. It's just the fact that they hate American more for illegal wars, murders, invasions and their support of Israel. Had the US not invaded Afghanistan, they would have been far more sympathetic and it would have been far easier to find the ones really responsible for 9/11. Now the US has killed thousands of innocents making it far harder for anyone to be sympathetic for them.
Maybe I would get a different response from you if I had said Al-Qaeda instead?
Bin Laden more popular than Musharraf in Pakistan: poll
ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is more popular in Pakistan than President Pervez Musharraf, according to a poll released Wednesday.
The survey "may help explain why Osama bin Laden remains at large in Pakistan and why both al-Qaeda and the Taleban have regrouped there", the group said in a statement.
It said it polled 1,044 people across Pakistan between August 18 and August 29.
Military ruler Musharraf, facing the biggest political crisis of his eight years in power and increasing pressure from Washington to tackle extremism, is the biggest in from the poll.
It said his approval rating was 38 per cent behind 46 per cent for bin Laden, the architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks who is believed to be hiding on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Bin Laden's ratings jumped to 70 per cent in the Islamist-ruled North West Frontier Province.
Musharraf's main rivals, the former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, enjoy favourable opinions of 63 per cent and 57 per cent respectively.
Meanwhile only 13 per cent of people here said they would support US military strikes without Islamabad's cooperation -- a threat issued by several US officials in recent months. But a majority back the Pakistani military, without US support, pursuing al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters inside Pakistan, the poll showed.
A mixed bag at the end. Even though Pakistan's people favor Al-Qaeda's leader more than Musharraf most are apparently willing to use their military against al-Qaeda and Taleban fighters inside Pakistan. Those two statistics really conflict with each other.
Still the love for Osama more than Musharraf is a telling sign of the trouble Pakistan faces, wouldn?t you agree?
One more thing to consider, they apparently control north/west Pakistan ? and if you aren?t willing to kill all of Al-Qaeda and Taleban supporters their rebellion will live on indefinitely and always pose the risk of growing in population/popularity across the rest of Pakistan. With it being 40% across the country, and 70% across the ?tribal? region, I don?t expect you?ll ever stop them.
What do you think?
