Our Pakistani 'Ally'

President Obama repeatedly calls for patience toward Pakistan, but, as Al Smith, a long ago New York mayor was wont to say, Let's Look at the Record:


Pakistan's military and intelligence establishment denies that they were sheltering Osama Bin Laden even though he was living right under their noses. So were they lying, just averting their eyes, or just so hopelessly incompetent?


Whatever the answer, it makes no sense to view them as an ally and to keep financing them as if they were. But there's even more, much more:


*  A key Al Qaida operator, one Hassan Ghul, who with great effort by U.S. forces, was turned over to Pakistani authorities at their request on the basis of their assurances that he would not be allowed to go free. However, according to this report, he was freed and has rejoined Al Quaida.


*  Meanwhile another militant who closely associated with Bin Laden, Fazle-ur-Rahman Khali. who heads a terrorist group aligned with Al Qaida and was a confidant of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shiekh Mohammed, lives freely near Pakistan's capital with, according to this account, the knowledge of Pakistani authorities.


*  In the last few days it has become known that Pakistani authorities have rounded up and detained their now disappeared countrymen who assisted the U.S. in the Seal team mission that successfully rid the planet of Bin Laden.


*  Finally, according to this current dispatch,  our Pakistani allies still are tipping off our supposedly common targets  to enable them to escape when the U.S. shares with the Pakistanis information and advance plans for attacking the militants the Pakistanis supposedly are helping our forces to combat.


What an ally ! ! ! !


Patience, my ass.

Let's get out troops out of the Afghan and Pakistani hell holes and leave the schemers in charge there with a message that if anything untoward is let loose on us or our allies from their neighborhood our response will not be a proportionate one and that we will retaliate without restraint, devastating them and their country and laying complete waste and to it . . . destroying everything there to the point that it will be a struggle for anyone in it ever again rise to even a stone age subsistence level.