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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, April 24, 2009

An overthrow with regime coordination

How bizarre is this Taleban/Pakistan situation at this point? While the Taleban are trying to take over the country, they're more or less coordinating with the government to find the acceptable rate of revolution that will stay below the threshold of serious violence or serious US intervention.

What kind of civil war is that?

(AP) Pakistani Taliban pull back to Swat stronghold.

(I need a better read of where the Pak military is on all this.)

posted by mikevotes at 6:39 AM

5 Comments:

  • That is Pakistani politics.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:28 AM  

  • It's unbelievable to me.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 10:30 AM  

  • You've obviously not spent much time in the region.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:35 AM  

  • Yeah. I'm just accustomed to traditional civil wars, power struggles, coups, etc where the primary goal is defeat the other side, not coordinate with them.

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:55 PM  

  • "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." Winston Churchill.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:20 PM  

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