Purging ISI Very Difficult

Long War: India has given the US and Pakistan a list of 50 dirty ISI officers and demanded that these bad guys be purged from the ISI. Senator Kerry is heading to Pakistan to demand a purging of the dirty ISI officers as well as overall good behavior from the entire Pak government. A trial is opening in the US which will probably convict dirty ISI officers in a US court over the Mumbai terror strike. Probably the Raymond Davis incident was only the tip of the iceberg as far as the CIA's efforts to purge dirty ISI officers. A new battleground has emerged in the Long War: The Purging of the ISI.

You would think with all these attempts at purging dirty officers, the Pak spy agency would be clean as a whistle by now. Sadly, it is still filthy. The problem is that while there are plenty of purging attempts there is very little actual purging going on. For example: Dirty ISI officers are still sheltering Mullah Omar and his staff in the Pak tribal lands, or somewhere in Pakistan. So this is a big problem.

But the public perception and media presentation of the dirty ISI officers is highly inaccurate. The media is saying that the Pak Army is not attacking the Taliban because of ISI dirt. This isn't true. There is a big Pak Army military offensive underway right now in one of the more rebellious tribal provinces. The Pak Army in the tribal lands is losing soldiers and fighting just as hard as the American Army in Afghanistan. Cutting off military aid to the Pak Army would not hurt the dirty ISI officers; actually it would help them big time. Anything that helps the Taliban helps ISI dirt.

Solving the problem of ISI dirt is no business of the US Congress. It will do stupid things like deny the Pak Army bullets just as it has the bad guys in its sights. Yes I sound like a broken record but this Long War challenge is best dealt with by the CIA, not Sen. Kerry.