MORE DEFEATISM FROM THE NYTIMES: TALIBANISTAN

NYTIMES:

Talibanistan

The Taliban and Al Qaeda have established a haven in Pakistan’s tribal areas along the Afghan border. This is where the war on terror will be fought – and possibly lost.

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PAKISTAN’S WILD, LARGELY ungoverned tribal areas have become an untouchable base for Islamic militants to attack Americans and Afghans across the border. Inside the tribal areas, Taliban warlords have taken near-total control, pushing aside the Pakistani government and imposing their draconian form of Islam. And for more than a year now, they have been sending suicide bombers against government and military targets in Pakistan, killing hundreds of people. American and Pakistani investigators say they believe it was Baitullah Mehsud, the strongest of FATA’s Taliban leaders, who dispatched assassins last December to kill Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister. With much of the North-West Frontier Province, which borders the tribal areas, also now under their control, the Taliban are increasingly in a position to threaten the integrity of the Pakistani state.

Then there is Al Qaeda. According to American officials and counterterrorism experts, the organization has rebuilt itself and is using its sanctuaries inside the tribal areas to plan attacks against the United States and Europe. Since 2004, six major terrorist plots against Europe or the United States — including the successful suicide attacks in London that killed 52 people in July 2005 — have been traced back to Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to Bruce Hoffman, a professor of security studies at Georgetown University. Hoffman says he fears that Al Qaeda could be preparing a major attack before the American presidential election. “I’m convinced they are planning something,” he told me.

At the center of all this stands the question of whether Pakistan really wants to control the Talibs and their Qaeda allies ensconced in the tribal areas — and whether it really can.

IF WE DON'T RELENT OR RETREAT THEN WE WILL WIN. IT'S THAT SIMPLE.

• THE TRAITOROUS SCUMBAGS AT THE NYTIMES THOUGHT THE SURGE WOULD FAIL.
• THEY WERE WRONG.
• THEY ARE WRONG ABOUT THIS, TOO.
• OF COURSE WE CAN DEFEAT THE TALIBAN AND AL QAEDA.
• AND WE WILL - IF WE DON'T ELECT OBAMA:
• OBAMA OPPOSED THE SURGE. HIS VEEP "FOREIGN POLICY GURU" BIDEN OPPOSED THE SURGE - AND THE 1991 GULF WAR, TOO.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.