dagblog - Comments for "Turnabout fair play? w Brzezinski gone, Russia arms Taliban" http://dagblog.com/link/turnabout-fair-play-russia-arms-taliban-23091 Comments for "Turnabout fair play? w Brzezinski gone, Russia arms Taliban" en Wow, if true, I would think http://dagblog.com/comment/240837#comment-240837 <a id="comment-240837"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/turnabout-fair-play-russia-arms-taliban-23091">Turnabout fair play? w Brzezinski gone, Russia arms Taliban</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Wow, if true, I would think Putin's admin can never admit it.</p> <p>Could have something to do with Pakistan's military? I have not kept up with that whole thing for years, I used to be a fanatic.</p> <p>I do see in passing that there is still a lot of turmoil between military and civilian in Pakistan, so much so that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/07/21/mattis-decides-to-withhold-u-s-cash-from-key-pakistani-military-fund/"><em>Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has decided that the Pentagon will not give Pakistan the remainder of a key U.S. military reimbursement fund allotted to the country for 2016, a move that could signal a burgeoning hard-line approach by the Trump administration toward Islamabad. </em></a> <em>The Pentagon announced the move to withhold $50 million in “coalition support funds” in a statement Friday, saying it had determined Pakistan had not taken “sufficient action” against the Haqqani network, the Taliban offshoot responsible for numerous attacks on civilians and military targets in neighboring Afghanistan. Reuters was first to report on the development</em>.</p> <p>Things seem the same as always there, getting to be like Israel/Palestine, you don't have to follow the news because it's always the same thing:, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/asia/pakistan-blast/index.html">the Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility a bombing Monday in Lahore that killed 24.</a></p> </div></div></div> Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:01:47 +0000 artappraiser comment 240837 at http://dagblog.com