Pakistan Two Weeks to Live - USA

Fox News: Reports that General Petraeus has stated that Pakistan has two weeks to survive. The Government in Islamabad has finally gotten off the dime and is attacking the Taliban in the Buner, Dir Districts of Pakistan. The questions is are we in the Vietnam syndrome, the Army of Pakistan is reporting that they are winning against the Taliban/Terrorists, but are they just counting body bags, it does not matter how many Taliban/Terrorists you kill if they have hundred of thousands of recruits in the Swat Valley and in Afghanistan. It can be argued that the real weak spot for Western Security is not Afghanistan but Pakistan, the Swat Valley is an excellent safe heaven for the Taliban/Terrorists. Also they have the supply of emerald mines, they gain support by giving money to the poor. Pakistan just might be on the cliff folks.

Iraq OVER

Telegraph: Reports on the finish of combat operations for the British in Iraq. A war started by Tony Blair, that lead to his forced early retirement from No 10 and the deaths of 179 UK Armed Forces Personnel, that showed that the UK can not fight two Wars at the same time, Iraq and Afghanistan just took to much from our forces. Our brave Armed Forces personnel deserve our respect and support. They have always fought for Queen and Country with the highest determination to serve all our security. Thus those that have fought and paid the ultimate price shall always be in our thoughts.

On the political and strategic front there are questions, after our Armed Forces Personnel come back we should have an Independent Committee of Parliament investigate the background of the War; those on the political side under oath should be asked if there was another way and and they should detail all the meeting and deals about the War, also the strategy, after the War finished we didn't keep enough troops in theatre.

The 100 Day Presidential Press Conference

Here are some interesting comments by Obama on Chrysler and Waterboarding and Pakistan and its nuclear weapons. The President was asked about preventing the bankruptcy of Chrysler and GM, the President stated he following, " Let me speak to Chrysler first because the clock is ticking on Chrysler coming up with a plan. I am actually very hopeful, more hopeful than I was 30 days ago, that we can see a resolution that maintains a viable Chrysler auto company out there. What we've seen is the unions have made enormous sacrifices, on top of sacrifices that they had previously made. You've now seen the major debt holders come up with a set of potential concessions that they can live with. All that promises the possibility that you can get a Fiat-Chrysler merger and that you have an ongoing concern. The details have not yet been finalized so I don't want to jump the gun, but I'm feeling more optimistic than I was about the possibilities of that getting done.......The last point -- you asked about Chrysler bankruptcy. It was the prudent and appropriate thing for Chrysler to do to engage in the filings that they -- that received some notice a while back, because they had to prepare for possible contingencies. It's not yet clear that they're going to have to use it. The fact that the major debt holders appear ready to make concessions means that even if they ended up having to go through some sort of bankruptcy, it would be a very quick type of bankruptcy and they could continue operating and emerge on the other side in a much stronger position." Thus it will be interesting to ask when did the President know that the deal had failed. Was the President blowing smoke in the eyes of the reporters. Also what was interesting was the answer to the torture debate and if he had read the memos that argued that the torture had prevented attacks on the USA. The President stated the following, "I have read the documents. Now, they haven't been officially declassified and released, and so I don't want to go into the details of them. But here's what I can tell you -- that the public reports and the public justifications for these techniques -- which is that we got information from these individuals that were subjected to these techniques -- doesn't answer the core question, which is: Could we have gotten that same information without resorting to these techniques? And it doesn't answer the broader question: Are we safer as a consequence of having used these techniques? So when I made the decision to release these memos and when I made the decision to bar these practices, this was based on consultation with my entire national security team, and based on my understanding that ultimately I will be judged as Commander-in-Chief on how safe I'm keeping the American people. That's the responsibility I wake up with and it's the responsibility I go to sleep with. And so I will do whatever is required to keep the American people safe, but I am absolutely convinced that the best way I can do that is to make sure that we are not taking shortcuts that undermine who we are. And there have been no circumstances during the course of this first hundred days in which I have seen information that would make me second-guess the decision that I've made. " What was interesting, not what the President said but how he stated in views, his eyes did not look at the reporter, almost to the basement of the White House. This tells this blogger and that Obama had read these memos that state that torture has worked and it freaked him out. Obama's last comment is interesting, it gives him wiggle room if he has a 24 moment, in the future Obama might have to use these tough interrogation methods if events change, to quote and old UK PM when asked what could go wrong by a young minister, events, events was the reply. Thus Obama might find he does not have a choice, having a choice is a luxury, when a major City under a threat from a dirty bomb and your lucky to have a day you do what has to be done, otherwise you get impeached and have to share the stage with another weak President, Jimmy Carter. The President stated the following on Pakistan, " I'm confident that we can make sure that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is secure -- primarily, initially, because the Pakistani army I think recognizes the hazards of those weapons falling into the wrong hands. We've got strong military to military consultation and cooperation. I am gravely concerned about the situation in Pakistan not because I think that they're immediately going to be overrun and the Taliban would take over in Pakistan; more concerned that the civilian government there right now is very fragile and don't seem to have the capacity to deliver basic services -- schools, health care, rule of law, a judicial system that works for the majority of people. And so as a consequence it is very difficult for them to gain the support and the loyalty of their people. So we need to help Pakistan help Pakistanis. And I think that there's a recognition increasingly on the part of both the civilian government there and the army that that is their biggest weakness. On the military side you're starting to see some recognition just in the last few days, that the obsession with India as the mortal threat to Pakistan has been misguided, and that their biggest threat right now comes internally. And you're starting to see the Pakistan military take much more seriously the armed threat from militant extremists. We want to continue to encourage Pakistan to move in that direction. And we will provide them all the cooperation that we can. We want to respect their sovereignty, but we also recognize that we have huge strategic interests, huge national security interests in making sure that Pakistan is stable and that you don't end up having a nuclear armed militant state. " These last comments by Obama could be argued show that Obama is thinking outside the box, but correctly, it could be that the USA will have to send troops in to Pakistan, in the Tribal badlands on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan and also to the Capital of Islamabad to protect the nuclear weapons of Pakistan. I will state again, Obama is the new LBJ and Afghanistan and Pakistan is the new Vietnam.

Threat of Fresh Attacks on Obama Surge in Afghanistan by the Taliban

Fox News: Reports on the threat by the Taliban to attack the Obama surge in Afghanistan. One has to ask is this a bluff, why attack Western Troops in Afghanistan, the Obama surge and the increase of Western Troops would cost the Taliban more than the Western Forces. It has been argued that Taliban will divert their attention from Afghanistan to Pakistan. The safe heaven in the Swat Valley is a perfect base to attack both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Government of Pakistan with its deal with the Taliban has shown that it can be pushed about, the Taliban broke their agreement with the Government in Islamabad by going in to the lower Dir District and Buner District of Pakistan. The appeasement of the Government of Pakistan has shown that it is weak, the USA and UK have made it plain that the West is looking at a failed state in Pakistan. Thus Taliban might be cowardly murders and thugs but they are not stupid. One can postulate that the heavy attack will be in Pakistan, the Taliban/Terrorists don't win if they fight Western Forces in the open. Thus one can argue that they the will transfer the terrorists polices from Iraq to Pakistan. Lets hope the CIA and Special Forces have the nuclear arsenal of Pakistan under eye and control. Also in the worse case outlook lets hope the US Air Force is ready to strike these missiles. Read of the Day.

Chrysler OUT

BBC News: Reports that Chrysler the Car Manufacture is going belly up. The point of Western Capitalism is that business can make money but also go bust. The idea that Obama Administration should devise a parachute for Chrysler was a mistake from the start, the UK did the same for the UK car manufacturing industry in the 70s, it was a disaster, it cost to much and the tax payer never got his money back, as the Gipper said in an interview; if a business does not work, he was talking about those that built the horse drawn carriage in the late 19th and 20th Century, the invention of the Car of put these workers out of work; then the workers have find new employment, Go West Young Man was a common advice to those that seeking new employment. In the UK it was get on your bike make and look for work. The Government has no business being in business, lets hope Obama has learnt his lesson, have my doubts, Intellectual Arrogance take some to see reality.