I Don't Think That Word "Win" Means What You Think It Means

Six months before the the twin towers fell to suicide plane attacks, Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid wrote a book about the little-known organization behind the worst foreign attack on U.S. soil.

But Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism was important - and remains important more than a decade later - for far more than its insight into how and why the Taliban ran Afghanistan like a medieval video game.

Rashid emphasized over and over again one point. One point that that was deliberately ignored even by intelligence agencies that knew better, even after the 9-11 attacks. One point, that had it been taken seriously, would have saved the U.S. 3,000 civilian lives, more than 5,000 military lives, and trillions of dollars desperately needed today to save the economy.

That point is this:

The enemy is Pakistan.

Not the Taliban, who are a bunch of illiterate troglodytes whose only goal in life is to avoid ever coming into contact with the females of whom they are so terrified.

The enemy is Pakistan.

Not Iran, which despises bin Laden, al Qaeda and Sunni fundamentalism with the heat of a thousand suns, and which would have leaped at the chance to the help the U.S. eliminate bin Laden and all his works.

The enemy is Pakistan.

The staff of U.S. defense intelligence agencies knew it perfectly well. They knew that the hundreds of billions of dollars's worth of high-tech weapons we "sold" to Pakistan ended up in the hands of bin Laden, with the help of the Pakistani security service.

The enemy is Pakistan.

But how boring to take out a bunch of flintstones characters no one would ever know about, when waiting a few months would set off a global conflagration that would never end.

Permanent War at Last.

They must have needed hip waders to get through the flood of masturbatory jizz in Smirky/Darth's Situation Room.

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