Friday, August 7, 2009

Killing Pakistani Taliban leader may help neither it nor US



Will the U.S. killing of a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/world/asia/08pstan.htm"Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud/a reduce Taliban power in Pakistan? Reduce violence? Help the U.S.?br /br /The answer MIGHT be “no” on all three counts, and certainly is not a guaranteed “yes.”br /br /The resulting power vacuum could worsen things. So could Pakistan’s ISI, if it still wants to play ball with the Taliban in Afghanistan.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-3595316412060860184?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div

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