tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post6719262122993765695..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-3211669009683854142009-02-22T23:57:00.000-05:002009-02-22T23:57:00.000-05:00How does one rebuff demands that are no longer being made? No, it is a misreading of the article to say that Obama blessed or even aquiesced in the 'truce', that is, the institution of Sharia Courts in the Swat Valley.IndyPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15940502801797040457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-76327054579451591362009-02-22T16:10:00.000-05:002009-02-22T16:10:00.000-05:00Gary,<BR/><BR/>This comes as no surpise at all. Obama and Biden both stated that they would increase focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan, and that they would be successful where the Bush Administration was not. <BR/><BR/>Once people realize that Obama's most senior foreign policy advisor is the guy who implemented US funding of radical Islam and madrasa's in Pakistan and in Afghanistan, they will also realize that in order to achieve regional Administration policy objectives (geostrastegic domination of Eurasia, as published by Zbigniew Brzezinski and as stated often by Richard Holbrooke and his policy associates), the Administration needs a catalyst to justify further regional intervention.<BR/><BR/>In that regard, Obama's Pakistan policy makes perfect sense. The biggest mistake that most people make when analyzing policy is by trying to understand it in terms of benefitting the US. The goal of US foreign policy is NOT to benefit the US. The goal is to advance the chess board in preparation for a more unified, global system, with those who control US policy in control of the emerging global system. Watch the economic headlines to see how this is unfolding.<BR/><BR/>I recommend reading "The Grand Chessboard" by Brzezinski, 1997. He lays out the palns for Eurasia, including maops and drawings. Bush implemented about half of the strategy. Brzezinski is now Obama's senior foreign policy advisor and Obama is already moving forward with the next steps of the strategy. It's very simple to follow once you've read the book. Frightening too, but the strategy is 100% apparent after you read it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-43776378122130911292009-02-22T10:02:00.000-05:002009-02-22T10:02:00.000-05:00Paul, The American demands to continue the fight against the militants was the policy of the Bush administration. By tacitly going only with the Pakistani government's decision to allow Sharia law as defined by these militants to apply in the Swat Valley, the Obama administration has abandoned the previous U.S. position. Who knows, if Obama hadn't gone along with it, someone might have found a record of his travel to the country back in the early 1980s on an Indonesian passport as a citizen of that country.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-13803643237535869712009-02-22T02:31:00.000-05:002009-02-22T02:31:00.000-05:00The fact that a Pakistani official claimed that the administration 'showed understanding' of the strategy to take the local issue with ineffective Courts from the Taliban cannot be termed as a 'blessing' from the administration. To the contrary, the Times article states, "But the truce offered by the Taliban, and accepted by the authorities, rebuffed American demands for the Pakistani civilian and military authorities to stick with the fight against the militants, not make deals with them."IndyPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15940502801797040457noreply@blogger.com