Pakistan Rebuffs Secret U.S. Plea for C.I.A. Buildup

[Brutus]

1 its no longer a secret. (how on earth did that get out?)
2 geez, can you blame Pakistan for not craving US intervention?
3 the story only makes the area look even more unstable, making Pakistan vulerable to attack.
4

In Washington, however, the Bush administration has said that fighting terrorists, chiefly Al Qaeda, is the primary purpose of the $10 billion in American aid that has been sent to Pakistan

why not spend a few hundred billion to get that money back?
5 "two wrongs dont make a right" but three do.
6 bah, bah, bah and bah.

WASHINGTON — The top two American intelligence officials traveled secretly to Pakistan early this month to press President Pervez Musharraf to allow the Central Intelligence Agency greater latitude to operate in the tribal territories where Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other militant groups are all active, according to several officials who have been briefed on the visit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/wo...662&ei=5087%0A

is the general intent to seal off the indian ocean from the rest of the continent?

[glovesetc]

sending their best Pakistani-American agents there !!! Otherwise they might stick out like sore thumbs at a carpenter trade school . America - please stay home - there is never a winner in a war. Thought we learned that in Korea, Viet Nam , Afghanistan, Iraq , etc etc