Pakistani soldiers aim their canon towards hideouts of Taliban and militants at Rustum near Mardan, Pakistan, on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Pakistani airstrikes killed dozens of Taliban fighters in a fierce struggle to drive them from a district near the capital, while the militants took over police stations and kidnapped more than 50 security forces, the army said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)From The Washington Post:
The Pakistani government's inability to stem Taliban advances has forced the Obama administration to recalibrate its Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy a month after unveiling it.
What was planned as a step-by-step process of greater military and economic engagement with Pakistan -- as immediate attention focused on Afghanistan -- has been rapidly overtaken by the worsening situation on the ground. Nearly nonstop discussions over the past two days included a White House meeting Monday between Obama and senior national security officials and a full National Security Council session on Pakistan yesterday.
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My Comment: Changing the plan one month after it was introduced is my red flag on how much this White House is unaware and/or ignorant of the fast changing events in Pakistan. The gymnastics and blatant lying and/or denial on what is now happening in Pakistan's tribal areas from both the American and Pakistani Government is frightening .... the consequences for an imploding and collapsed Pakistan would dwarf the collapse of Indochina to the Communists in the 1970s .... but our governments and our media groups are just pushing the official line.
The U.S. may shift all that they want .... but on the ground the situation is getting worse and worse .... and I do not see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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