Pakistan Reissues Its Usual Objections About Drones-- Again

There they go again. The Pakistan government bosses are once again inveighing against U.S. drone attacks on Taliban terrorists in their tribal areas. (There's a fundamental problem right there: tribal areas. Parts of an alleged nation-state actually ruled by primitive tribes. You can start fixing the problem by taking control of your own territory, Pakistan, instead of trying to grab territory from India!) [1]

Obama's specious speech at the “National Defense University” a few days ago, in which he repeated the same con man jive he used to get elected in 2008- his Kinder, Gentler Obama Act which he trots out when he's feeling political heat for his aggressive assaults on civil liberties and war by assassinations- incited the Paki Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reiterate for the umpteenth time their standard public line that the drone attacks are counterproductive and a violation of Pakistani sovereignty. (Both arguably true, up to a point. But the reality is a bit more complicated than that.)

The latest Prime Minister, newly elected billionaire Nawaz Sharif (his second time in the job, by the way, and like all Paki political bosses, corrupt to the core) has taken the opportunity of Obama's gimmicky speech about the terror war to also label drone attacks “counterproductive” (not an unreasonable point) and to call for their end.

Paki officials have been doing this for years now. Periodically, anonymous U.S. officials whisper into the ears of U.S. reporters that secretly the Pakis really approve of the attacks, and provide targeting intel. (Not too secret to be put in major U.S. media, however.) And after years of denying it, former President and General Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a military coup, has finally come clean and admitted that he did indeed authorize U.S. drone strikes all along. (You mean... you were lying all that time, Mushy? Say it ain't so!)

Drones are propeller (prop) planes. They fly relatively slowly. They have no defensive weapons. They do not incorporate stealth technology and so are visible on radar. Even without radar, people on the ground can hear and see them. Furthermore, they sometimes loiter in place over a given location.

Pakistan has a modern military. It has jet aircraft. It has radars. It has anti-aircraft weapons.

In short, the drones should be easy for Pakistan to shoot down for “violating our sovereignty.”

So if the Pakis really don't want the drones to fly over their country, why don't they just shoot them down? You'd think if their sovereignty was so precious to them, they would. (Of course, Pakistan is not a country that shows a great deal of respect for the sovereignty of other nations, like its neighbors India and Afghanistan, as it constantly sponsors terrorist attacks against those nations, including murderous assaults on government officials and even the Indian embassy in Kabul just last year. So maybe they've forfeited their own sovereignty rights.)

Seems to me the Paki politicians (and generals too) are being cynical here. They're putting on a show of opposition to the drones for their public, since their public despises the drones. (No surprise there. Imagine if China was firing missiles from drones at targets in the U.S., like Uighur “terrorists,” say, or Tibetan exiles, or Chinese dissidents living in asylum in America. I would guess that the American public wouldn't be terribly thrilled by that.)

So Pakistan, why don't you just shoot down the drones? Hmm?

Could it be that the Paki ruling elite fears an Islamofascist takeover of their own country? Could it be that the Paki military is having trouble controlling the jihadist Frankenstein's Monster it created? Could it be that the Paki elites don't really mind overmuch if the U.S. “takes out” certain jihadists?

Could be.

And maybe they enjoy receiving billions of dollars in free U.S. money, which they use to buy arms aimed at India, a country they irrationally despise. (Big mistake by the British to create Pakistan in the first place, giving these bastards a country.)

But there is some tension over which jihadists get to enter paradise and screw 72 virgins, courtesy of U.S. killer technology. (By the way, after they use up all their virgins, then what? Are they satisfied having sex with used women after that? Or do they masturbate for the rest of eternity? What does the Koran say? The answers to everything are in there.

And how come they still have their earthly corporeal forms, complete with penises, especially if they were blown into bits of flesh by a Hellfire missile? Does Allah put the pieces back together again, like a protoplasm jigsaw puzzle?) [2]

The U.S. wants to turn into pulverized flesh some jihadists that the Pakis are sponsoring, like the grotesque and loathsome Haqqani network (the terrorists who tried to blow up the Indian embassy with ISI help) and the Afghan Taliban that Pakistan provides sanctuary, arms, and training for. [See, “Secret Pakistan: Double Cross,” a BBC documentary, at youtube.com] Pakistan just wants the U.S. to take out some Paki Taliban, apparently. (And keep the gravy train flowing.) There's already been a significant tapering off of drone strikes in Pakistan this year.

Hey Pakis, maybe you need to stop jerking people around for once and poop or get off the pot. If you really mean what you say about drones, shoot one down. Then the U.S. will have a reason to believe you.

Otherwise cut the crap. We will be thanking you kindly if you do! (Insert Pakistani accent here.)

1] Pakistan makes cynical use of its claim of not controlling its own territory. It can disclaim responsibility for harboring terrorists and sponsoring their terrorist attacks in India and Afghanistan. It gives it a ready-made excuse for not suppressing the various Taliban organizations.

2] Apparently the Koran makes sexual provisions in paradise for those who were (presumably closeted) homosexuals on earth. While looking for the number of virgins (or wives, who of course must be virgins) online (the number apparently is vague and was invented later, like a lot with Islam) I stumbled across various references to promises of comely lads awaiting those who swing that way when they float up into the sky for their reward:

Quran 52:24 “Round about them will serve, (devoted) to them, young male servants (handsome) as Pearls well-guarded.

“Also in Surah 76:19 Allah promises fresh youths to Muslim men.

And round about them shall go youths never altering in age; when you see them you will think them to be scattered pearls.”

(QURAN 76:19): "And round about them will (serve) boys of everlasting youth.”

I can't vouch for these references. Obviously they are translations (or purport to be). One came from Yahoo! Answers. You might want to do your own research on that score.

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