Hey maybe we can get Pakistan to do our airport security?

[pauldp]

This CS Monitor Op seems to think that's just the sort of thing that will help us build bridges with the Muslim world.

-How about not bombing them?

<snip>

A rational look at the facts tells a different story. True, the United Arab Emirates - where Dubai stands out as a modern city-state on par with Singapore and Monaco - was home to the man, Marwan al Shehhi, who piloted United Airlines Flight 175 into the second World Trade Center tower. But our key frontline ally in fighting terror today, Pakistan, was home to a lot worse. True, bad banking went on in the UAE, some of which funneled money to the 9/11 hijackers, but money laundering is not unique to Arab countries. True, Dubai was the distribution hub of rogue Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan's nuclear black market. But truer still is the cooperation Dubai's intelligence officials gave the US in helping unravel Dr. Khan's network.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, many nations have changed course in important ways to balance out such negative liabilities as the UAE carried in the pre-9/11 world. Dubai is a glamorous showcase for global capitalism in the unlikeliest of places. And there is a fundamental commitment to fighting terrorism there that most Americans don't know about.
<snip>

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0224/p09s01-coop.html

They of course forgot to mention that there is evidence Pakistani intelligence funded 911 as well.
But hey Pakistan is one of our trusted allies in the war on the human emotion called TERROR.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=107432

[babylonsister]

1. Speaking of, where is the young woman who was

'disappeared' from the CSM last month?
And I hear they're waking up Bob Woodruff from ABC now, out of his coma, to determine how much
head trauma he has.
Don't forget; this war was 'created' by the blivet. He had lots of people telling him not to
go here, and he did it. I wish he'd reap what he sowed.

[BuyingThyme]

2. It's amazing how our only "allies in the war on terror" are the people

with whom Bush allied to attack us on 9/11.

[pauldp]

3. Kinda like OJ looking for Nicole's killer.

[dave29]

4. I was hoping maybe Libya

but I'd settle for Saudi Arabia

[pauldp]

5. Hey let's build a bridge with Sudan!

If we get them to patrol our borders with Mexico and Canada,
maybe we'll understand each other better? Then we can get a better understanding
of their atrocities in Darfur.

[fujiyama]

6. Right after seeing the author

I didn't bother reading the article.

Monsoor Ijaz is the guy (Fox News's "security analyst" or some such BS position) that claims that Clinton had an offer to kill bin Laden from Sudan but did not take it.

[pauldp]

7. How do these shills sleep at night?

Oh he has a middle eastern name so he must know what he's talking about.
:eyes:

[Pryderi]

8. I want to outsource the Secret Service to an Iranian firm

[pauldp]

10. I think the police forces could use a little help from China.

They are an ally in the war on terror too.

[goforit]

9. This has been such a warped process of the WTO.

Never dreamed that the WTO meant jobs and security.

Just thought it was gonna be a product trades.

So much for my innocence and ignorance.