When you lay with dogs don’t be surprised when you get bit by fleas.

bad news but typical of Pakistani Army. Well, it has to be a CIA war from now on. secret, proxy, and even more brutal with plenty of B2 strikes from Kansas and Missouri but without regular soldiers in the fight.

Why should Iraqi children, Afghani women and Pakistani soldiers die because Bush has a cowboy fantasy about Jesus beating the evil Islamists? This "war" is no more about Islam than Timothy McVeigh was about Christianity--it is a way to sell a product (an endless and profitable war) to Americans. Pakistan is already paying a heavy price for helping the U.S. stir this nest of criminal terrorists. It needs to become sovereign again.

This is yet another pin in the USA voodoo doll. Sistani backs away in Iraq...Blair is about to get booted out of office....now Pakistan is no longer assisting the US in tracking down bin Laden.

Sounds like it's not just the American voter losng confidence in the Busheviks.

By the way, it's "wreak" havoc....not "reek" havoc.

Okay! Okay! I promise we'll be good citizens now, yes? Oh, okay! Great! Talk to you later!

Did anybody expect anything else? We had our chance at Osama bin Laden and his leadership at the caves of Tora Bora. We let politics rule the day and he slipped away. His destruction at Tora Bora would have sent an unforgetable message. Instead we have Iraq and the extremists grow stronger.

This is why the U.S. needs to get out of the 'World Police Dept.' business. All those american lives lost, and for what? Absolutely nothing, it would seem. C'mon, dubya! Wake up and smell the coffee. You'd have better luck trying to vacuum up all the sand off the beach!

When you don't have a strategy, when you don't have the resources or the men or the money to carry out a mission successfully, you get bad results. Fighting in the mountains is strategically advantageous for al-qaeda, not for the US or Pakistan.

The idiots at the White House and the Pentagon did not evaluate the situation wisely and planned a very poor war.

Now, with the mess in Iraq, they want to tackle Iran and N. Korea? Give me a break!

Afganistan has increased it's poppy cultification for heroin a significant amount this past season, They will undermind the United States just by making a drug available that kills and takes away our values.

TALIBANISTAN

A gift from g. w.'s closest parnter in his war. A safe haven for Bin Laden.
Thanks a gain another great choice
first atomic scerets sold to Korea. Biilions in aid and arms
that could used against us or sold to those who will.You sure can pick them.

Seems like things are going backwards. We invaded Iraq because of a "threat" but not one terrorist to hit America or Britain or Spain is Iraqi. Pakistans and Afghans are terrorists, but we have cordial relations with their governments. What's wrong with this picture?

it a sad commentary when a nation make a deal with murderers. I've learned that taking the easy road out is not always the best road in the end. We still today have not identified nor understand the mentality of the enemy that threatens the free world. God help us!

We need to cut a deal with India. Thay attack Pakistan and keep on fighting west. We land on the beaches of Saudi Arabia (from the Red Sea) and keep on fighting east. We'll meet up with the Indian Army somewhere in the middle (like in the middle of Iran). Whatever ground India takes, they can have. Whatever ground the US takes, we keep. But bottom line requirement is that none of the islamic nut-cases in between get away. Scorched earth.

Who started all of this ... and WHO has profited with these strategies? Well, it certainly isn't the little fellow, who gets nothing except more heartache and death. If Bush thinks the world is winning after his selection in 2000 and in 2004, then I have some land I would like to sell you after his scorched earth policies ... that benefits no one. InTel just announced the loss of 10,500 jobs in America ... that's nothing in comparison to a bigger war that he would very much like to see against anyone he deems against democracy.

Meh... just adds one more to Axis of Evil... Syria, Iran, North Korea and Pakistan.

I am very sick of every country that we help with foreign aid, military protection, jobs etc...turning their back when the going gets tough. On the same note why do we keep giving to countries that are this way. Lets let Pakistan be Pakistan and France be France and let them drown in their own problems! The bottom line is no matter what we do "they" will not like us. We can be giving, they won't like us, we can be iron fisted, and they won't like us. So why try. Let’s be the USA and enjoy our good fortunes and let the other wallow in their own pools!!

are you kidding me!! osama is hiding in those mountains laughing at us! pakistan is harboring terrorists, but the administration seems to look the other way. same goes for saudi arabia, but instead of pressuring it and pakistan we dive headfirst into iraq!? this makes no sense to me.

again the truth comes out. a deal is struck, more alliances are changed...that which was descibed as "an all out effort on our countries' part" by the so called president of pakistan to "root out the agents of evil" becomes another heartbreaking farce...
clearly we cannot place any stock in what any "elected" official in the "birthplace of civilization" has to say... the most encouraging news of the day is that we have discovered another pocket of oil in the gulf of mexico...with alternative energy and new oil...do we really want to??

This just underscores once again why there needs to be a fundamental change in our U.S. foreign policy that has for decades relied on intervention -- it just isn't practical and won't work. We need to stop sticking our nose in other people's business.The people of the Middle East don't want us there. The "war on terrorism" is bogus -- it is not our war. If we withdrew our military completely from the region and had a more balanced policy on the Arab-Israeli issue we wouldn't have to worry whatsoever from the Islamic radicals. Guaranteed buddy.

Under Rove, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, and Bush and their so-called "War on Terror" has been a complete failure. TIME FOR CHANGE IN OCTOBER, RIGHT? Vote Democrat!