Communicating Arts - Main Web Site"What's going on?" I asked the warlord. "Why aren't they coming for you?"
"I cannot lie to you," Namdar said, smiling at last. "The army comes in, and they fire at empty buildings. It is a drama – it is just to entertain." [1]
In the way of the webcentric blogger's second row seat to history, that above comes via Sherry Ricchiardi quoting for the American Journalism Review (August-September issue of 2009) veteran war reporter Dexter Filkins quoting a Taliban warlord .
"What is striking, say analysts, is how little has changed in Pakistan a year after U.S. special forces burst into a large house in Abbottabad in the early hours of May 2, 2011, and shot bin Laden dead.
"Pakistan's security establishment remains addicted to using, or at least tolerating, Islamic extremist groups as its proxy warriors, despite the deaths of thousands of Pakistani civilians and soldiers and the humiliation of bin Laden being found just steps from the country's premier military academy." [2]
A friend of mine in Lahore has called Pakistan's cultural and political makeup "a salad."
It is sure that, and while I wouldn't worry about the hot peppers taking over, one well may question the officially tolerated predilection for leaving the same growing wild and always more influencing on the character of the landscape.
My guess: the Taliban have turned out out the best military aid packaging stimulus ever.
Reference
1. Ricchiardi, Sherry. "Assignment AfPak." American Journalism Review, August/September 2009.
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