Pakistan has fought three wars since independence against a much more powerful India and will fight if US invades. This is invasion of a soverign country, nothing else.

Julie – Have you seen the madrassas in Pakistan? Or do you just see those on western media. Do you have any proof of saudi funded madrassas in Pakistan? The only support Taliban had was from US untill 6 month before 9/11 to take out the russians and later to root out the war lords. Its documented in alot of sources and by writer who is as American as any 'Chomsky'.

What is happening today in Pakistan is what I and most of my friends living in the U.S. but in very touch with affairs in Pakistan have feared for over three years now. Bush administration's Pakistan policy and Musharraf's blind support for Bush administration, or at least lack of logical argument against it was destined to create this atmosphere. It was destined to strengthen the so called militants and their power to recruit the deprived and uneducated warriors. We gave birth to – and supported the Taliban to fight the Russians. Now that we needed to fight the Taliban themselves after 9/11, look at where we have gotten! How much success have we really achieved in Afghanistan? Depends on who is defining success but to me, declaring success in Afghanistan anytime in the near future or ever will be same as President Bush getting on the ship with a banner on the back stating ‘mission accomplished! 5 or years, more than half a trillion dollars, 5000 of our brave men and women, half a million innocent Iraqis’ later, where are we with mission accomplished?

We have created the same environment or at least given a reason to the influential evil powers in Northern Pakistan to capitalize on the ignorance of the uneducated and the unemployed to hire and train them to go out and kill innocent people. We then call these people terrorists and the fight against them as War on Terror.

But what does all that really mean? And what are we going to achieve by continuing to bomb an area or a region that prospered, in a very unfortunate and an extremely negative way, but still the fact that it prospered due to our lack of knowledge on how to effectively deal with that area/region in the first place. I laugh when President Bush himself or someone associated with him talks about how we need to deal with terrorism on the offense versus on the defense. To them, dealing with terrorism on the offense means bombing. I agree that indeed that is one way of dealing with it. But what about being on the offensive via 'Economic Prosperity'. Help create an economic prosperous environment and help build schools so the mentality of young children will become the same as the mentality of young children here in our country or like children in Karachi, Lahore or Islamabad where killing innocents is believed to be the worst thing that one can do in life, regardless of what religion and what nationality the target is from.

We have sent millions and millions of dollars to Musharraf and Company which we have no account of how and where it were used. I am not asking for extra dollars but the same that we sent over to Pakistan in six years now, had we made sure that part of it went to helping the region prosper economically, we would have avoided the evil powers in the region to effectively recruit the less fortunate and uneducated young men to fall prey to the evil powers who promise a reward to these innocents if they bomb other innocents and kill themselves while at it.

Bush administration is on its way out. Musharraf is already history. Whether President Obama or President McCain will understand this philosophy and to what extent is yet to be seen. But I pray to God, for the sake of America, Pakistan, and the rest of the world they do better than what Bush & company and what Musharraf and Company have done. My hopes are with our next President because now in Pakistan, with Asif Zardari poised to be the next President, only God, if he comes down to earth physically can save Pakistan from deteriorating further, economically and otherwise.

Do you guys in "Geoja" ever learn how to think for yourselves?
or do you just let the media do the thinking for you.

go vote for your republican bunch and stay in the quagmire as this country is now!

Shame on US for supporting these secret missions which put so much fear in the lives of the innocents living in the region.

Do you bomb a project in US, if its causing a lot of problems?

Bombs dont know a terrorist from an innocent. And US officials didnt even care to take count of the civilian neighborhood they ambushed in Pakistan. Shame on the bully and cowardly US government.

Please comment on the Saudi-financed madrassas which act as training grounds for the Taliban and are the only real alternative for an education for some of the kids in those outlying areas. Just like gang warfare in America's urban areas, joining the Taliban is the only viable occupation some of these young men have open to them.

Stay safe, hope to see you on t.v. once everyone gets over their fascination with the Pitbull with Lipstick.

Sometimes I think you're lucky you are over there....

Cindy...Ga.