Snapler

A blogger called MinistryOfTruth writes in the Daily Kos that "Obama has caught more Taliban leaders in 1 month than Bush/Cheney did in 6 years." It must be noted that this roll-up of Taliban leaders, including Taliban chief Mullah Omar's number two guy, Mullah Baradar, would not have been accomplished without the collaboration of Pakistan's House of Spies, the I.S.I. So what's up with that? The I.S.I. was the godfather of the Taliban, present at the creation, and when the Taliban were routed in 2001 by a plucky band of C.I.A. agents on horseback (plus Mohammed Fahim and the Northern Alliance, plus, let's not forget, a fleet of B52s in the sky and a few hundred commandos on the ground who had been setting the stage in Afghanistan since a few moments after 9/11) the I.S.I. welcomed their bloodied brood back into Pakistan. There, sheltered by their own Dr. Frankenstein, fattened on a diet of drug dollars and heavy weapons, they grew into the monster we know today that is bedeviling the U.S. and NATO in Afghanistan.

But the kids started feeling their oats, and thought, hey, let's take Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, too - or, in their case, Peshawar, the Swat Valley, and maybe even Islamabad. The I.S.I. seemed like any other parent: they'd lost control of their offspring.

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