According to the Wall Street Journal, the Obama Administration is pressing for the Pakistani government to allow large numbers of additional CIA agents on the ground in the nation’s tribal areas, an effort to support the massive CIA drone attack program with more forces on the ground.
Yet Pakistani officials say they have rejected the demands, and there seems to be considerable opposition to increasing the CIA presence already in the country, which operates largely in secret.
There are a number of reasons for this opposition, chief among them being Pakistan’s public opposition to the US killings in the tribal areas and general distrust for the CIA. But some also suggest that the Pakistani government is worried the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) agency’s standing as a CIA partner, and that more CIA forces on the ground could mean cutting the ISI out of the picture.
The Obama Administration is forever looking to make more inroads into Pakistan, however, so it is doubtful they will simply let the matter drop. With another $2 billion in military aid being proposed just in the past few days, the administration’s clout over the Zardari government is only growing, and so too are its designs for a more substantial “on the ground” presence in Pakistan.
the CIA's mission seems to have changed… they're looking for stuff that justifies the project rather than the truth.
so the people sent to pakistan will be politically correct… the same "kommissar" mentality that the KGB used in the soviet union…
…which means that CIA people in pakistan will be divorced from the reality experienced by pakistanis, and divorced from the idiocy of a project that intends to achieve "benevolent global hegemony" by killing hundreds of thousands (millions, eventually) of people.
but might makes right, and that's the only operative moral consideration.
we gots to prop up the shambles for as long as possible to prolong the opportunities to loot.
now then, if you dont like the idea of CIA people being the handmaidens of the empire, or if you think maybe there's some salvation, and looting by the instigators of this project is only coincidental…
it's a downward curve for the empire, a process, and it's just a matter of time until the petroleum is reserved for use by the instigators and the people that protect them.
reign of terror, that will work… terrorize americans into silence and apathy.
it's just too damn bad that there are so many other people in the world who are so hard to terrorize into submission, isnt it?
the problem is: i've been there… in vietnam, laos and cambodia… and you havent, as far as i can tell.
i know how it works, and while the CIA company i worked for was the best, from a common sense operational standpoint, they wouldnt have been there in the first place if they'd had any moral integrity.
would they?
of course, if i'd had any moral integrity, i wouldnt have been there, either.
you got to wonder…
if people serve the empire by doing things they know are wrong, is that a sign of the empire's decay?
do empires die because of apathy?
going through the motions vs …what? …a belief in the golden rule, or a belief in basic difference between right and wrong?
a new porsche and a new wife, a recession, and no prospects other than nixon "get the vets off the street" make-work jobs.
what the hell
live and learn
here's how it works…
i've got all the borders in a vector file, abobe illustrator, traced from google maps, which means you can zoom in on google maps at any scale, put that map in photoshop, manipulate the colors (using the illustator borders to manipulate each country), import that photoshop file into illustrator, add snide comments and whatnot.
would you like that illustrator file?
would there be strings attached?
i doubt if apathy will pull you through
We have became slave in our country with no justification to allow more killings by CIA in Pakistan, before americans leave this area will destroy Pakistan upto the ground zero for their sadistric and unmoralic satisfaction and I don,t believe Zardari can refuse as his stakes are in america his money children.
CIA is and remains biggest killer organisation in the world and im moment can,t be challenged.
God bless the Pakistani who are being killed and killed, even these suicide bombers are being trained and send by CIA in Pakistan.
…but after 50 years of being exempt from criticism, how could you expect anything else?
and you dont think people will figure it all out.
ditzy
so, judging from the kid on the bicycle, lots more people have figured all this out than you're willing to admit.
but you've got car and house payments to make, and if you told the truth, you be unemployed.
that's the system, isnt it?
finally, i've got to say that the cowardice of antiwar.com is so typically american, so typical of the american establishment, that
…that it confirms my worst suspicions.
you got to wonder…
who is more worthy of hate?
some idiot writing for pajamas, or someone that has transient credibility, writing for antwar.com?