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It's inhuman and unwise to target civilians when they are mere puppets of agents higher up in the hierarchy. It's simple, really: the US is killing Pakistanis,
by Arun2009 16y ago
It's inhuman and unwise to target civilians when they are mere puppets of agents higher up in the hierarchy. It's simple, really: the US is killing Pakistanis, and when they find that their people are being culled, the likes of Faisal Shahzad will snap and go to any length to get back at the US.
IMO, what we really need is a MASSIVE propaganda effort to isolate Islamist ideologues within Pakistan. Not sure how this will happen, but the parallel I have in mind is the downfall of Nazism in Germany. If NATO along sympathetic states like India pool their resources together, I think it should be possible to buy out/instigate/support any number of revolutionaries within Pakistan who will effectively portray the Islamists as the cancer of not just Pakistan, but of mankind itself.
- pvg 16y agobut the parallel I have in mind is the downfall of Nazism in Germany. That took the systematic leveling of a good chunk of Germany, just for starters. Perhaps not an optimal parallel.
- brudgers 16y agoBut better than Imperial Japan.
- pvg 16y agoIf you go by death toll, it seems by most sources, Germany fared quite a bit worse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_...
- brudgers 16y agoMy comment was regarding weapon systems deployed, as that was the subject of the article, not which pile of bodies was bigger.
- Arun2009 16y ago> That took the systematic leveling of a good chunk of Germany, just for starters. The parallel was not between the specific route and methodology used, but the eventual outcome: the religious extremists must come to be viewed with the same revulsion with which the Nazis are viewed today. My point was that this can happen only through a massive propaganda campaign generously supported from outside.