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Taliban actions beg US to escalate war on them

by YankeeJim | May 22, 2010 at 05:23 am

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Taliban aggression inside their own countries is an internal and troubling problem for free people inside and outside their locations. The US is in the Middle East as a response to al-Qaeda attacks on 9/11. We were in the Middle East before that to protect oil interests and we are there now for all of the above.

Taliban’s attacking US citizens and the US mainland escalates the battle. The US has declared war against terrorists. If the Taliban gains a political foothold in any country, like they did before in Afghanistan, the war escalates from a war against a terrorist tribe to a war against a nation state.

Pakistan must effectively eliminate the Taliban and associates inside their country 1) for their own free people, and 2) to curtail hot pursuit by the USA. This is a long term threat and problem for the USA and Pakistan, as well as others in the region. Close military and diplomatic ties must continue.

The duration of the need to for the USA to continue involvement is tied directly to dependence on petroleum for energy. Eliminating dependence on foreign oil eliminates the necessity to be involved in the internal matters of these nations, with exception of when terrorists extend their attacks against the USA.

Escalating the importance of replacing petroleum as an energy source will reduce the necessity for the USA to be involved military around the world.

“'Reason to believe' Pakistani Taliban plotting to strike U.S.

U.S. intelligence has strong reason to believe that the Pakistani Taliban is actively plotting to hit interests in the U.S. and American targets overseas, a U.S. official told CNN Thursday.

The concerns about the group that authorities say directed the Times Square bombing plot are coming from multiple streams of information, including from Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bombing suspect, the official said.

The official told CNN that CIA Director Leon Panetta and National Security Adviser Jim Jones relayed the new terror threat information to Pakistan's government on their trip there earlier this week.

The threat information was not down to the level of specific cities, the official said.”

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anarkissed

at 09:41 on May 22nd, 2010

Of course they want the west to engage them in war! It's a money drain, a drain on lives, excuse to be ever more rude, and embroils the world in a chaos that supports the taliban's restrictive and tyrannical aims. The harder choice is not to engage them in full war but to find another way to cope, such as empowering the people under them to become more resistive and stop supporting the Taliban. Make them look like the bullies they are so they lose support. Aggression just fuels the conflict.

YankeeJim

at 10:02 on May 22nd, 2010

Brilliant

Spydermonkey

at 19:28 on May 23rd, 2010

And while we are throwing money at them, in the form of bombs & grunts, we are not investing in other forms of power, point one. Two, when we blow up some poor farmers house with all his extended family in it, then we are just giving the people there fuel for the fire, & people willing to keep it going.....blowing themselves up & anyone else that they can.