The USA, or: How Not To Help Pakistan

June 21; Sherbano Taseer, daughter of an assassinated Pakistani politician, talks with Rachel Maddow about the complicated relationship between the United States and Pakistan and looks ahead to President Obama's expected announcement of troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.
bcglorfsays...

Curse you for making me upvote a Maddow segment!!

This is an absolutely critical piece for people to hear and understand. It should be dominating ALL other discussions about foreign policy, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya combined do not represent the magnitude and depth of problem that Pakistan does.

Maddow couldn't be more understated in expressing the danger Sherbano is putting herself in by speaking out. Her father is not the first moderate to be assassinated solely because he was a moderate. Prominent and important moderate figures are being assassinated almost every other month in Pakistan. Even former president Benazir Bhutto has been killed off, as was her father before her.

There are elected members of Pakistan's nation assemblies who have expressed, at those assemblies, their anger that Pakistan's military abandoned Osama and let him be killed, because he was an Islamic Hero. Elected Officials of a nuclear armed state, are able to draw serious public support by declaring Osama a hero!

The depths of the spread of extremism within Pakistan is terrifying, not only for the unfortunate moderates like the Taseers and the Bhuttos living there, but for ourselves as well and the problem needs to be addressed far more seriously. Getting the media to even mention the situation in passing would be a good start...

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