Top US officials say there is a “real discussion” going on right now about launching drone attacks against the Balochistan capital city of Quetta. The comments are the latest in a series of threats against the city, one of Pakistan’s largest.
Though the Pakistani government has looked the other way and even provided behind the scenes support for the various US drone attacks against Pakistan’s tribal areas, officials say a strike on Quetta would be a deal-breaker.
“We are not a banana republic,” one official declared, adding that a US attack on Quetta “might be the end of the road.” Pakistan’s military has likewise repeatedly warned against attacks on the city.
The US threats are ostensibly designed to counter the Quetta Shura, a group of Afghan exiles supposedly running much of the insurgency from the city. Pakistan has repeatedly denied that the Shura even exists, though on Friday Defense Minister Ahmad Mukhtar insisted that security forces had degraded them to the point they no longer pose a real threat.
Yeah Go Ahead attack Quetta and wathch the Pakistan Military and People vent their anger on everything American. Killing more innocent civilians is no way to bring peace to the world.
I'm with Andron……. Yea, go for it…… Go for the TAP pipeline deal….the one that desires the breakup
of Balochistan. But of course it is WAR that the Unocal/Neocon cabal wish to bring….. War to weaken Pakistani control over the Baloch.. The one which the neocons prey will precipitate the snatch of Pakistan's nuclear weapons thereby ending Islam's nuclear arsenal. Watch out though when the Russians and China remove the gloves….. If that happens you will see the Taliban with surface to air SAMS and the coalition bogged down to ground transport; which was the end for the Soviets….. Using the ISRAELI playbook in Pakistan…..Killing the leaders of the opposition in targeted assassinations the ISRAELI way to control their victims could backfire in Pakistan. Buying their politicians with bribes can go only so far down the social ladder. Those on the take become too rich, out of touch and tainted. Any plan to divide and conquer will NOT leave the "right of way" safe for pipelines that screw China… It's all a pipe dream…….
1. "We're not a banana republic." True. No bananas.
2. "Killing innocent civilians is no way to bring peace." True. Banksters have no use for peace. They make their money on destruction.
3. "Those on the take become too rich, out of touch and tainted." Uh-huh, just like here.
Soon, with more terrorist acts by the fascist amerikan military, most of Pakistan will know its biggest enemy- fascist amerika !
tioche, Mexico
After Bush, didn't think any administration could be any dumber–but apparently I was wrong. Obama is sickening.
“We are not a banana republic,” – The US State Department categorically denies drone strikes on major cities in 'banana republics'. Now failed states that's another story.
With all the propaganda and diversionary bullshit being spewed out all over the place, it's sometimes hard to keep the proper perspective.
Here is the essense of what's happening: The war against Afghanistan was and is all about getting at Pakistan, and the war against Pakistan was and is all about getting at Iran.
As soon as our Zionist Masters feel they've sufficiently "neutered" Pakistan (i.e., turned it into a completely chaotic and violent, highly non-functional "failed state"), and feel they're in a position to seize/disable Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, they'll attack Iran.
Forget all the happy horseshit about "Al-Qaeda", the "Taliban", the "War on Terror" and Iran's so-called "nuclear program", blah-blah-blah, what the Obama puppet is doing is pursuing the PNAC agenda which is, of course, all about Israel and nothing else.
Where does India factor in to your Zionist equation? I'm not disagreeing with Israel's role in invading Iran, but India has a vested interest in a destabilized Pakistan. They share a border and India doesn't even have to lift a finger.
Israel is just one of many crafty parasites.
Peaceful_Idiot wrote:
"Where does India factor in to your Zionist equation?"
I don't know that it "factors in" anywhere (meaningfully, that is)…and why should it? If India disappeared off the map tomorrow, would that somehow sate the Zionists' thirst for blood or their desire to minimize the threat of Pakistani blowback from an attack on Iran? I don't see how, and I really don't see what your point is.
If "Harry" murders "Bill", does that make the funeral home that handles Bill's funeral (and earns a profit from it) an accomplice somehow?
Peaceful_Idiot wrote: "Israel is just one of many crafty parasites"
LOL! Or so you'd like to claim. How many other "crafty parasites" can you name whose agents have completely subverted the whole political process in the U.S.? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but any open minded person with internet access and some basic reasoning skills can see that Israel and its agents have essentially completely taken over the U.S. government.
Nelson, they haven't taken over the whole U.S. government, just our foreign policy. The insurance and pharaceutical companies call the shots when it comes to the nation's health, and the bankers control the U.S. economy. But you're right about this Af-Pak war. The big push for its escalation is coming from the Israel Lobby. They'd love to de-nuke Pakistan, or at least have a bunch of big U.S. military bases permanently in the area. There are plenty of other idiots in the U.S. who love war in general, but they don't have as much political power.
And why wouldn't India, a nation that shares a border with Pakistan and has been involved in a long time dispute over Kashmir, have any interest in a de-nuked Pakistan?
People need to stop being so short-sighted and realize that there are other nations in the world besides Israel pulling our strings. Sure, Israel may want pipelines, but India has much more to gain from us destabilizing the regional rival it shares border with (i.e. Pakistan) than Israel.
Realizing this also lends credibility to a noninterventionist foreign policy. It is hard enough trying to follow Israel's trickster dealings, let alone other nuclear powers that have their own agendas that involve "covert" help from the US military.
Turkey for one, according to Sibel Edmonds.
But go ahead and keep pretending that only Isreal has its hooks in the Empire and not, say, a nuclear power that shares a border with Pakistan and has vested interests in the US being there. Surely you can figure it out, figure out that there are more foreign nations in the world with agendas besides Israel. Use your basic reasoning skills and you'll find that there are more countries in the world than the US, Israel, and its enemy du jour, go a little deeper and you might even discover that those other countries have their own agendas and are doing a fantastic job convincing Americans to their dirty work.
And with folks like you convincing everyone that US foreign policy is "all Israel, all the time", why should these other folks change? The US does their dirty work, Israel and the US take the heat. What a great deal, why wouldn't other nations take that deal?
And like I said, I never denied the power of the Israel-First brigade, I was pointing out that you are being extremely shortsighted if you believe that only Israel is clever enough to pull our strings. To claim that India has no interest and no involvement in our Af-Pak adventure while sharing a border and having long standing issues with Pakistan, and that it is all "Zionists" is extremely naive.
I've seen the India-first brigade in action, and while it is not as blatantly insane and obvious as the hasbara brigade, it exists, and is there, and its encouraging Americans to kill Pakistanis for India's benefit.
It's simple.
cui bono
Nuclear armed India has a longstanding land dispute with its nuclear armed regional rival Pakistan over the Kashmir region. A nuclear free, destabilized Pakistan greatly benefits its regional rival, nuclear armed border sharing India.
With that in mind, nobody thinks such a situation would motivate Indians to encourage Americans to destabilize and Pakistanis? With the enormous benefits our Indian "allies" ("Ally" being the first clue of a nation parasite) are receiving from the US military removing their greatest regional rival/threat, how can anyone really believe that US involvement in Af-Pak is all about PNAC oil pipeline jpgs, Israel and nothing else, not Pakistan's nuclear armed non-NPT long-time regional rival policy disputing neighbor?