Taliban was primarily created and nurtured by ISI & Pak Army at the behest of American interest in Afganistan. Al-Qaida, Taliban, LeT, & such other terror groups are too much a part of Pak's Army and ISI to be severed by the rantings from India or USA. Pak is a failed state. The civilian government has no control over its territories. Army and ISI are almost parallel governments in Pakistan but running in different directions. This makes it impossible to fathom the depth of the crisis. The civilian government can be easily replaced by Army rule, if they incline too heavily towards the demands of India and the USA. Therefore, the civilian government is totally toothless to have a final say on any matter what-so-ever. This has made the position of US and Afghanistan even more precarious. The sea-route to Afghanistan is blocked by Iran. Now the sea-route via Karachi to Afghanistan may be blocked by Pak Army & ISI. Recently 200 vehicles in transit to Afghanistan were torched by ISI. Pak Army will never destroy its own creation in the frontier region. So US has little room to move. The attacks from drones on these NW Frontier areas are a testimony to this. US has used money its buy its transit to Afghanistan via Pakistan. But the table has turned. The terrorist out-fits will no longer keep quite.
Money has failed. Diplomacy has failed. Now we see threats. Threats may not bring the desired results. The only option left for US is forced occupation of Pakistan to carry out its crusade against the perpetrators of 9/11. But forced occupation of Pakistan is not as easy as that of Iraq or Grenada. US is far away geographically speaking. Therefore, the easiest way would be to use India to occupy Pakistan and annihilate all terrorists in Pakistan. That done, there will be not much left to be done on the soils of Afghanistan. That justifies Obama's hints at Afghanistan & Pakistan.
26/11 is the right opportunity to engage India into a costly and prolonged war on Pakistan : for free. There will be no America lives or wealth at stake, not even to the effect of nuclear bombing by Pakistan on India.
The great America depression in 1930s led to World-War II. Europe & Asia were destroyed. US unaffected by this distant war prospered to this day. Now we have an economic depression emanating from the US. India and Pakistan are far too away from US.
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