CRamS wrote:Boy, are TSP RAPE milking Malala with impunity.
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These pukes are beneath contempt.
Well of course they are.
Connect the dots, as always. A nice clear trail stands out from Salala to Malala.
1) Salala... USAF halaals TSPigs by the dozen when they try to provide covering fire for advancing Taliban. This comes on top of a long list of H&D jhaapads beginning with Raymond Davis, going on to Abbotabad and Admiral Mullen, and finally to the "last straw" of Salala.
2) Kiyani tries to brazen it out and closes off road access for NATO supply convoys to Afghanistan. US responds by cutting off funding here and there.
3) In the mutual b@lls-squeezing battle, TSP begins to lose badly. They ask Tarrel-than-Mountain for a bailout, but Beijing tells them to get lost. Pretty soon they are out of funds. They start to produce alleged "tactical" nuclear warheads at a frenetic pace, and plant all kinds of alarmist propaganda in the US media about their rapidly increasing nuclear arsenal. US does not blink. TSP says, ok, maybe we'll restore access for NATO if you give us an "unconditional apology". US does not blink. TSP says, ok, maybe just a conditional apology but give us 100x the earlier price per truck. US does not blink. TSP sends Zardari to a global conference on Afghanistan. Obama does not even look at him.
4) Finally, TSPA agrees to restore access for NATO convoys to Afg. No apology, nothing (though the TSP media keeps making tall claims about how an apology from John Kerry or Hillary Clinton is just around the corner.) The question is: why? What deal was cut?
5) So here's the speculation.
TSP was told by Washington: clearly we don't need you to do the needful in Afghanistan. We will happily spend the few extra bucks required for logistics, pump up Karzai's armed forces without any acknowledgment of your Paki concerns, look the other way when Karzai cuts defense pacts with New Delhi, and basically marginalize Slumbad 400% in the international post-withdrawal political process for Kabul.
TSP was also told: the ONLY hope you have to get back into our good books, following this tantrum, is to mount an all-out military operation against the Haqqanis and Gul Bahadur in North Waziristan.
TSPA assessed the situation, looked again at their empty coffers, and realized that none of the 3.5 friends was on the way with bags of money to bail them out. (India, meanwhile, was trying to take advantage of this situation by bringing bags of money to bail TSP out... but MMS' allegedly chanakyan moves are not the central issue here.)
Finally, TSPA realized that they had only two choices... take the American deal, fold with no apology and no price hike for NATO convoys, AND ultimately undertake a military operation against the N.Waz Talibs. OR, let India bail them out (while cultivating a large aman-ki-asha constituency within their borders.) Clearly, nothing was worse from TSPA's point of view, than letting India bail them out. So they took the American deal.
6) And the American deal is what's playing out now.
STEP I: Hillary Clinton "waives" the terrorism-rider for the annual $2Billion aid package to Slumbad. This is done before any action by TSPA, as a gesture of "good faith" and face-saving.
STEP II:
TSPA/ISI has Malala Yousufzai shot. The orders come directly from Kiyani's desk. Malala is then taken into the hands of TSPA medical facilities, and made into a comatose media puppet for the "rehabilitation" of Pakistan in the international community's eyes. Western media, prompted by the US State Dept, begins plugging the story of how "the shooting of an innocent schoolgirl has now, finally, really, truly, woken up the enlightened moderate Mawslums of Pakistan to the fact that Taliban is their real enemy."
Bullet-ridden Malala also serves as a plausible causus belli for popular consumption. TSPA can claim that the shooting has "opened their eyes to the true nature of the Taliban", and use this to justify launching a military op in N.Waz, which might otherwise have earned them condemnation for fighting America's war.
STEP III: TSPA either makes good on the last part of the deal... mounting a full scale assault against N.Waz Taliban... or does something tactically brilliant to try to get out of it after already having reaped the benefits from Hillary Clinton and the US media. Either way the outcome should be fun to watch. Bring the nihari-flavoured popcorn.
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