Pakistan, put simply is a “Failed State”. Why not acknowledge the obvious? It is, as always, a “Sows Ear” never to be a “Silk Purse”.

What will be the cost to Australia of the new incursion into Pakistan: A step in the wrong direction again and straight from neighbouring Afghanistan, I wonder!

“Pakistani authorities must deliver swift justice to the murderer and any possible co-conspirators to send a signal that such violent fanaticism has no place in Pakistani society, regardless of the fear and intimidation they might feel in doing so.”

They won’t

They’ll say Qadri, the trigger-man, was acting alone and leave it at that.

The day before Taseer’s funeral A BBC Newshour reporter went through the streets of Karachi asking people their opinion on Taseer’s assassination. All five of those whose interview was broadcast expressed the view that Taseer had to die for “insulting Islam”. One said that if Qadri was hanged he would be a martyr. I have a recording of the BBC segment but no way of posting it here.

In a very real way Qadri seems to have been carrying out the will of the Pakistani people.

In other words, it appears Qadri is representative of MAINSTREAM Islam in Pakistan.

Remember folks, Qadri belongs to the same “elite” guard units that guard Pakistan’s nukes.

Now there’s a scary thought.

>>The bodyguard Malik Mumtaz Hussein Qadri was detained immediately after the shooting at Kohsar Market in Islamabad. He confessed to the murder, said Pakistan's interior minister, Rehman Malik.

At his first court appearance in Islamabad the guard was showered with rose petals by sympathetic lawyers and hugged by other supporters.>>

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12116764

I guess that says it all.

Absolutely.

Pakistan really needs to declare war on its extremists. Because whether they like it or not, they are under attack and delay only strenghtens their enemy.

The ISI's use of the Taliban as a bulwark against Indian hegemony in Afghanistan has come back to haunt them. The rise of Islamo-Facism in Pakistan is now well advanced, with all levels of the military and gov't having been infiltrated.

Pakistan has a choice to make, and its maybe already too late. But they need to decide whether they want to be the country Muhammad Ali Jinnah wanted for them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah#Jinnah.27s_vision_for_Pakistan Or the country that Osama Bin Laden and the Pakistani Taliban wants them to become.

The time, when they could use islamo-facism for their own ends, is over.

PaulL

I keep coming back to the fact that this country has nukes.

It's like some kind of nightmare.

But the loony left think thats not a problem, because any nuclear attack on the US or India or Israel, would provoke massive retaliation. What they don't understand is that the Islamo-Facists are not motivated by narrow self interest. They have twisted principles that they stand for.The Taliban knew that by not giving up Osama Bin Laden, they were effectively destroying their country. And they did it anyway.

The bigger problem is organised looting of nuclear material, for use by terrorist groups. How do we defend against that? How do you effectively retaliate against a group that has no borders to defend, no gov't and no identifiable home?