And Pakistan learns the problem with supporting terror

[Loren Pechtel]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/15/pakistan-afghanistan-taliban-border-war/

Pakistan tried to deal with it's nutters by getting them to attack Afghanistan. Now that there's no more attacking to be done in Afghanistan they're turning on Pakistan. And those nutters have previously tried to egg on a war between Pakistan and India--which could easily get out of hand and go nuclear.

 

[ZiprHead]

(Meterwall warning)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/15/pakistan-afghanistan-taliban-border-war/

Pakistan tried to deal with it's nutters by getting them to attack Afghanistan. Now that there's no more attacking to be done in Afghanistan they're turning on Pakistan. And those nutters have previously tried to egg on a war between Pakistan and India--which could easily get out of hand and go nuclear.

Gifted link to the article Loren posted.

 

[laughing dog]

The OP is just another example of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" backfiring.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The OP is just another example of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" backfiring.

This isn't enemy-of-my-enemy, but rather Pakistan trying to solve it's fundie problem by exporting it.

 

[steve_bank]

There are rural tribal areas where the government has never had control.

Pakistan rnges from backwards rural Muslims who kill foreign NGO vaccinators because they think they are infecting people to modern tech companies.

The scary thing is if the government collapses who controls the nuclear missiles

Pakistan has always been duplicitous, and we ibught them off with miltray aid.

 

[laughing dog]

The OP is just another example of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" backfiring.

This isn't enemy-of-my-enemy, but rather Pakistan trying to solve it's fundie problem by exporting it.

You are mistaken. Pakistan supported the Taliban for decades for a myriad of reasons. One reason was to deny India any influence.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The OP is just another example of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" backfiring.

This isn't enemy-of-my-enemy, but rather Pakistan trying to solve it's fundie problem by exporting it.

You are mistaken. Pakistan supported the Taliban for decades for a myriad of reasons. One reason was to deny India any influence.

That's not incompatible. They supported the Taliban as a way to direct the violence outward rather than inward.

 

[laughing dog]

The OP is just another example of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" backfiring.

This isn't enemy-of-my-enemy, but rather Pakistan trying to solve it's fundie problem by exporting it.

You are mistaken. Pakistan supported the Taliban for decades for a myriad of reasons. One reason was to deny India any influence.

That's not incompatible. They supported the Taliban as a way to direct the violence outward rather than inward.

It is consistent with the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The OP is just another example of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" backfiring.

This isn't enemy-of-my-enemy, but rather Pakistan trying to solve it's fundie problem by exporting it.

You are mistaken. Pakistan supported the Taliban for decades for a myriad of reasons. One reason was to deny India any influence.

That's not incompatible. They supported the Taliban as a way to direct the violence outward rather than inward.

It is consistent with the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Except it wasn't really about an enemy at all. Pakistan didn't have a problem with Afghanistan, they just wanted their own fundies to attack elsewhere rather than attack them.

 

[laughing dog]

The OP is just another example of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" backfiring.

This isn't enemy-of-my-enemy, but rather Pakistan trying to solve it's fundie problem by exporting it.

You are mistaken. Pakistan supported the Taliban for decades for a myriad of reasons. One reason was to deny India any influence.

That's not incompatible. They supported the Taliban as a way to direct the violence outward rather than inward.

It is consistent with the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Except it wasn't really about an enemy at all. Pakistan didn't have a problem with Afghanistan, they just wanted their own fundies to attack elsewhere rather than attack them.

As I pointed out earlier, you are mistaken.