Long War: The desire for Congress to stick its nose into the Af/Pak war is gathering momentum. Brain dead congressmen are beating the Pakistan drum harder and harder, demanding that Pakistan become squeaky clean overnight or all military aid will be cut. Liberals want to use the money for social spending. Tea Party politicians want to grab it for deficit reduction. Neither has a clue about the geopolitical consequences.
Pakistan is not squeaky clean. How squeaky clean is America? US Army Major Hassan killed 12 soldiers in cold blood a year or so back, acting on the orders of Al-Qaeda. There have been at least a dozen instances like this over the past decade. US Army Private Manning gave the names of CIA informants to Wiki-leaks, many were probably killed by the Taliban. Manning will be tried for treason. A small percentage of US combatants are acting as moles for Al-Qaeda. A larger percentage, but still a minority, of Pak intelligence officers and combatants are also traitors. How about the general population of both countries? A couple days ago a Taliban cell was exposed in Florida. Dozens of Al-Shabab fighters in Somalia are US citizens, recruited by Al-Qaeda cells in St. Paul, Minn.
Yesterday a Pak Army unit fired on an American helicopter because of Congressional posturing. There are currently 165,000 Pak Army soldiers fighting in the Pak tribal lands. They could stop fighting all at once and Afghanistan would be overrun with bad guys.
No doubt Congress will lose interest and catastrophe will be averted. If left alone, the Pentagon and CIA are more than up to the job. There have been several large battles in Afghanistan between the bad guys and the Afghan Army during the start to the spring fighting season. The Afghan soldiers so far are achieving a 12-1 kill ratio.
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