"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
A Sino-U.S. Proxy War in Pakistan'
For what it's worth, it's Webster Tarpley saying so at Russia Today. But, recent revelations of U.S. arms and money increasingly ending up in the hands of the Taliban with Seymour Hersh's recent article at The New Yorker reporting Pakistan officials will basically never trust the U.S. -- who, "from their point of view, used them like a Dixie cup and then threw them away", according to one former Bush Administration official -- the theory isn't far-fetched.
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