Posted by
Young Republican on Monday, July 14, 2008 1:12:04 PM
My grandfather, the other one for long time readers, a die-hard FOX News addicted Republican, came from Florida to visit my family. When he was coming up our driveway, he picked up the family paper. Then he made the mistake of actually seeing which paper it was, "The New York Times" or as we call it in my sister and I call it "The Jew York Times". (Yes we are allowed to say it we look so perfectly Jewish so that has to count.) Anywho, my grandfather threw a temper tantrum and told me how my evil reading habits were ruining America and that I was wrong for supporting quote "that wicked paper". At that point, I went to work an hour and a half early and escaped to the breakroom, hoping for safety. I now know how every teenage boy must feel when his mother finds "Playboy" under his bed. I didn't have the heart to tell my grandfather I actually read the paper for the articles. The reason I subscribe to The Times is for it's foreign affairs coverage which are better than any other American new source. You are lucky if you get half a paragraph on the side bar on page 9A of your local paper about the evil's of Mugabe. In The Times you get an actual idea of what's going on and the implications it has for the world.
Which brings me to the point of how angry I am at the current situation in Pakistan. Yesterday, 9 of our soliders were killed by the Taliban alongside the Afghanistan border. The enemies' base camp location? Pakistan. On the front page, side by side, The New York Times, had to articles to showcase the mockery of our anti-terrorism campaign in Pakistan.
You see, the Taliban have unfettered power, in the Ziarat region of Pakistan. Not only that but they have their own prisons, court system, oversight over the Marble industry, and collect taxes. Yes they are actually the tax collectors. When two Times reporters were held by the Taliban and then released, Pakistan then asked the reporters questions but not one of them pretain to the Taliban, their location, descriptions. It was apparently all old news.
To state the obvious, two organizations attacked us on 9/11 and only two. Al-Qaeda and the their major funders and protectors the Taliban. We have been told time and time again, that our enemies were hiding in caves cowering and broken. But now as the stories in The New York Times, illustrate they are actually running proviences in Pakistan. This isn't a missing person case, they are out in the open. The Times reporters kept running into one member of the taliban after another.
Why aren't we, America, with the greatest military in the world not killing those who killed us? It doesn't make sense. I support the Iraq War, the War In Afghanistan, and anything else that attacks the Islamic world but why aren't we killing those who actually enaged our response in the middle east. Our leaders, including President Bush need to answer to us these questions. Or even better, just kill them and let that be the answer.