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Outgoing U.S. Chief of Staff Mike Mullen, having bravely chimed in to support allowing gays to openly serve in the military through the repeal of DADT, warned that the only way for this country to avoid being another cast-off in the “Graveyard of Empires”–by which he meant Afghanistan–is to consider extending our hapless trillion dollar saga into neighboring Pakistan.

Right now, Pakistan is the chief whipping boy for U.S. imperial fury. (sigh)

Mullen targeted Pakistan’s intelligence agency (ISI) as being the culprits behind recent high profile attacks against U.S. targets in Afghanistan that were staged by the stagey Haqqani network, one of the Taliban’s coalition members fighting against foreign occupation (the U.S. and NATO, an American coalition member).

Forget that this is all about the Turkmenistan oil pipeline and the desire to aim the pipeline more toward, say, Israel. And forget that the Taliban had rid most of Afghanistan of opium poppy production prior to the U.S. invasion, after which coalition forces were simply charged with the orderly control of the production (translate: ka-ching).

A recent attack by the mujahidin (the business end of the Taliban) on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul seemed to revive the nightmare of the Tet Offensive by the Viet Cong in Viet Nam in 1968. We all know how that one eventually worked out. And no doubt the U.S. is mindful of the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan in 1989.

Making matters considerably worse, Pakistan’s ISI seems to take orders directly from the Taliban, so that where once we considered winning hearts and minds to firm up an old allegiance with Pakistan, now it appears that that country is fast becoming  the last hope target to secure success in Afghanistan.

Where India was once Pakistan’s long-standing and only rival, now most of Pakistan’s enmity is aimed directly at the U.S. I guess that’s what one gets when one mucks about with bombs, drones and occupations in far-flung places, and more specifically in countries who never intended us any harm.

So now there are some itchy trigger-fingers pointed at Pakistan. Ah, massive war, massive debt, and our holiest and most massive Pentagon. The drum-beat goes on.

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