'Pakistan still exporting terror'

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It would seem like our policies to fight the War on Terror are at best schizophrenic and at worst, just plain dumb. Sorting through the international news today I found an opinion piece that stated in brief, "...Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are now finding themselves in the same boat on issues of global terrorism. Pakistan's ISI continues to provide support to the Taliban and such Jehadi groups as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed, whose cadres are being arrested worldwide for inciting and promoting terrorism. There are strong suspicions that government-backed Saudi charities such as the Al Harmain Islamic Foundation, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, and the International Islamic Relief Organisation continue to fund extremist and terrorist activities worldwide and disturb peace and harmony in pluralistic societies."

Not to mention this number from the title link, "A prominent Pakistani leader has embarrassed both Washington and Islamabad by disclosing that Pakistan's military government continues to run terrorist training camps and is infiltrating militants into Afghanistan despite professing to be a US ally in the war on terrorism."

We can't win this way. I've said this before but it apparently needs repeating; unless the governments (and their respective militaries) of the vast Muslim nations begin to take seriously the threat of terrorism and then do something decisive about it, we're just waiting for a cataclysmic attack to happen. This is like shooting heroin. Sure you'll live long enough to suffer greatly, but no matter how you slice you're still just waiting to die a miserably painful death.

We cannot continue to do business with the Saudi's and the Pakistani's while they play both roles of ally and enemy. We are just spinning our wheels in a perpetual war with an entrenched enemy that lives on the battlefield and isn't afraid to die so long as they drag us down with them.

But maybe I'm being too naive in asking for the governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to pick our side and put an end to their sly support of Islamic terrorism against the West. Maybe what is really called for here is what some have been calling for in Iran; open revolt.

The fact of the matter is that in all reality, short of nuking every country from Somalia to Malaysia, the US can't win the War on Terror. We're good at wars where we can kill innocent people in the name of a higher cause (see World War II) but we're really bad at fighting entrenched, homegrown, asymmetrical armies funded by larger, host countries (see Vietnam/Soviet Union) where we're trying not to kill innocent people. The Jihadi's may have declared war on the West but the fight has to actually come from the Arabs/Muslim/Persians themselves. If the moderate/secular populations of the greater Middle East cannot see it is in their benefit to arrest Islamic fundamentalism then we're left with a perpetual never-ending war with an enemy that cannot be contained. This is the path to inevitable nuclear war.

This is a call to all Arabs/Muslims/Persians with a stake in not living as serfs, slaves and the walking dead. This is your war. You are caught between the radicals that won't listen to reason, don't want peace and will murder you if you get in their way, and a West that is slowly but surely losing patience and can blow this entire planet up 100 times over. Let's not lose complete perspective here; at any given time the US alone could end life, as we know across Eurasia and Africa. Maybe our current president isn't so encourage to do that but let another 9/11 with nuclear implications happen and you can bet your sweet bippy whomever is in the White House will press that big red button.

I should not be reading through Google news searches that "Pakistan is still exporting terror." I should not be reading that the Saudi Royal family, "with whom relations couldn't be better with the US" is still exporting terror. Yesterday I called for the US to grow and start facing reality. Today I'm demanding the same of our Arab/Muslim/Persian brothers and sisters; nevermind Israel/Palestine, nevermind the Shah and the CIA, and nevermind the Crusades; evolve, grow up or surely we will all suffer.