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Thu 19 Aug, 2010 06:48 pm
an estimated 20 million people are currently impacted by the flooding with weather forecasts of 4 more weeks of monsoon rains.The inept government seems incapable of anything, aid is not showing up, the Taliban are escalating civil discord. Afghanistan is next door and Iran is just down the street.
@dyslexia,
I fear more Islamist fodder being created. More kids will definitely be pushed into the madrassas funded by Saudi Arabia for their soul buddies the Taliban.
@talk72000,
well talk, I disagree, I don't think Saudi Arabia considers the Taliban as friends. I do think internal chaos will shake the very roots of the Pakistan government and the Taliban will instigate rioting the people by offering them aid, the people are hurting and will accept aid from whoever brings it.
@dyslexia,
The Wahhabis are funding the mosques all over the globe with their message of extremist Islam.
@dyslexia,
If the Taliban is smart they will take a page from Hamas, and step in to preform Government duties after the Government fails to do them. And they will show more tolerance then they normally do. This would topple the Government for sure. The reason I have hope is that I dont see the Taliban being this smart. I think the likely result is that no one will do the work, and that the people will suffer terribly. Given the situation this is the best that we can hope for.
@talk72000,
talk72000 wrote:
The Wahhabis are funding the mosques all over the globe with their message of extremist Islam.
yeah, that has what to do with the current situation in Pakistan?
@hawkeye10,
But, that's exactly what the Taliban is doing. Such relief that is getting there is coming through them.
@dyslexia,
The families will become destitute and give their children to the mosques or madrassas to feed and brainwash them to be future Talibans.
@talk72000,
you on drugs? do you need drugs?
@roger,
The USS Peleliu got there a week ago, along with helicopters and 1,000 Marines. I think the UN pledged help yesterday...or sometime this week. Still not enough, though.
@Irishk,
how much help do 20 million and rising need? quite a lot I suspect.
@dyslexia,
It's tragic. I think the Int'l. Red Cross is now involved, also. Park51 has listed a donation site via their Twitter page.
obviously the lack of significant aid to pakistan is because some of the aid might get to the taliban. I'm pretty sure Pakistan doesn't have very many nukes so that shouldn't be a problem.
@hawkeye10,
i'm guessing dys was being sarcastic
@djjd62,
djjd62 wrote:
i'm guessing dys was being sarcastic
what?
oh
yeah.
that's twice I've done that.
@dyslexia,
the situation in pakistan is way more complex than most understand, you're right to worry, this goes way beyond a simple (not that it's simple by any means) humanitarian disaster
@dyslexia,
dyslexia wrote:
an estimated 20 million people are currently impacted by the flooding with weather forecasts of 4 more weeks of monsoon rains.The inept government seems incapable of anything, aid is not showing up, the Taliban are escalating civil discord. Afghanistan is next door and Iran is just down the street.
I say it's time for a vacation to Pakistan!
Disney World Islamabad NEEDS to be built!
[img]Islamabad[/img]
http://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/hamas-mickey-mouse-teaches-jihad/
@dyslexia,
Quote:an estimated 20 million people are currently impacted by the flooding ...The inept government seems incapable of anything
I would point out the US response to Katrina was considered by most Americans to be inept...and Pakistan (suffering a catasrophe many times worse than Katrina) by no means has 1/10 of the resources the US Govt had available.
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