The US isn't free to "punish" Pakistan at all since it needs Pakistan's cooperation to wage the war in Afghanistan and there are no signs that the US is ready to give up on that imperial enterprise. The US has never been able to really control Pakistan and certainly can't now. It has to make the best of it and take what Pakistan gives it.
Odd to think the death of bin Laden will be the end of al-Qaeda. Was the death of Jesus the end of Christianity? Or the death of Marx the end of Communism? I suspect the death of bin Laden will reinvigorate al-Qaeda, since the movement is the cutting edge of anti-Western imperialism and that movement isn't finished yet at all.
What is quite amazing is that US "warmongers" re Iraq and Afghanistan, like McCain are for the action vs Gadaffi that would bring to power an Islamic, perhaps radical, regime in Libya. I have to think McCain and his type simply like war wherever and whenever, whatever the result.
The US isn't free to "punish" Pakistan at all since it needs Pakistan's cooperation to wage the war in Afghanistan and there are no signs that the US is ready to give up on that imperial enterprise. The US has never been able to really control Pakistan and certainly can't now. It has to make the best of it and take what Pakistan gives it.
Odd to think the death of bin Laden will be the end of al-Qaeda. Was the death of Jesus the end of Christianity? Or the death of Marx the end of Communism? I suspect the death of bin Laden will reinvigorate al-Qaeda, since the movement is the cutting edge of anti-Western imperialism and that movement isn't finished yet at all.
What is quite amazing is that US "warmongers" re Iraq and Afghanistan, like McCain are for the action vs Gadaffi that would bring to power an Islamic, perhaps radical, regime in Libya. I have to think McCain and his type simply like war wherever and whenever, whatever the result.