The curse of the moderates

A tour de force by Caroline B. Glick on the failing stability in Pakistan and the middle East. While Pakistan and the Middle East continue to fall to terrorists, the American administration continues to muddle along as though this was nothing more than a disagreement over trade.
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The curse of the moderates
By Caroline B. Glick
Ten days after the Pakistani elections, the geopolitical consequences President Pervez Musharraf's political defeat are beginning to come into focus. And they are grim.
By any measure, Pakistan is a dysfunctional state. At least twenty-five percent of its 160 million people live in abject poverty. A third of Pakistanis suffer from illiteracy. The only prospering school system in the country is the Islamist system where millions of children are indoctrinated by preachers who share the world views, religious beliefs and political goals of al Qaida and the Taliban.
As to that, with popular backing, the Taliban is currently fighting to extend its control over Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. It has controlled North and South Waziristan since 2005. It is now asserting its control over Kurran, Kyber, Mohmand, Orakzai, and Bajaur agencies and much of the Swat Valley. This control, together with the Taliban and al Qaida's territorial gains in eastern Afghanistan over the past year, are enabling the Taliban and al Qaida to intensify their insurgency in Afghanistan and increase their popularity in Pakistan.
In a report this week, Asia Time's Pakistan Bureau Chief Syed Saleem Shahzad wrote that with their territorial gains on both sides of the border, the Taliban and al Qaida intend to create a strategic corridor from western Pakistan to Kabul and cut off NATO forces' supply lines from Pakistan. Those supply lines were already attacked in January.
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