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JRLeft (1,048 posts)

Pakistanis debate real enemy: girl-shooting Taliban or drone-firing US
 

The news that the Taliban shot a 14-year-old girl for speaking out against them has highlighted a major division in Pakistan over the question of which is worse: the United States or militants?

On one side are civil society members and some ethnic and religious minorities who find the attack on the girl, Malala Yousufzai, atrocious and are calling for action against the Taliban.

“There are many in our valley who would not dare to name the Taliban, but she spoke against them. We cannot deny her sacrifice,” says Khairullah Sina of Swat Valley, who works in the education sector and knows Malala.

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There seems to be a concerted effort to tie the Malala incident to the unrelated issue of US drone attacks in Pakistan, says Baqir Sajjad Syed, who writes on foreign affairs and defense issues for the English-language newspaper Dawn.

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"Every time there is a drone attack, innocent children and women are killed. We should also condemn that since it is equally unjust but no one is highlighting it," he says.

The US says it has no other choice than to use drones to rout out militants in areas like North Waziristan, but many Pakistanis complain that it is a violation of sovereignty and causes civilian casualties. It’s an issue that is used often by right-wing Islamists to whip up anti-Americanism.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2012/1018/Pakistanis-debate-real-enemy-girl-shooting-Taliban-or-drone-firing-US

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021575747

Response to JRLeft (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 04:54 PM
AverageJoe90 (2,688 posts)
3. Sorry, but it's definitely the Taliban. n/t

 
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Response to JRLeft (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 04:56 PM
 hifiguy (11,317 posts)
4. If they'd get rid of the sort of medieval asshats

who do unspeakably barbaric things like shooting teenage girls in the head for standing up for the right of females to get an education, and purge them thoroughly, the drone strikes would probably go away by themselves.

Decisively standing up, as a society, to backwards, inbred 11th century imbeciles, and stating that there is no place for them in a civilized country would improve Pakistan enormously. Not that I expect it to happen in the next umpteen

Love that last response. Goes against the vast majority gain, and has just a titch of sense in there, so the DUmmies will gnash their teeth over it. I have a feeling this thread won't burn very brightly.

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  hifiguy (11,317 posts)
4. If they'd get rid of the sort of medieval asshats

who do unspeakably barbaric things like shooting teenage girls in the head for standing up for the right of females to get an education, and purge them thoroughly, the drone strikes would probably go away by themselves.

Decisively standing up, as a society, to backwards, inbred 11th century imbeciles, and stating that there is no place for them in a civilized country would improve Pakistan enormously. Not that I expect it to happen in the next umpteen
 

Yet this same individual probably gets all verklempt when someone looks askance at a mosque.