Since 80% of suicide bombers are trained in Pakistan, shouldn't the country be punished?

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Either militarily or economically?

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Answer 1

Absolutely.

Naked, prove the statistics wrong. James provided his evidence, as reported by the UN (not the US!)

Apocaliste, no, today's terrorists were not funded by the US in the 80s. Anti-soviet rebels fighting in Afghanistan were given some weapons and munitions, but it is a long stretch to link the Muhjadeen with Al Qaeda. Read some history.

Ugly M, Pakistan does train, condone, and fund terrorists. Read some history. This fact is undisputed.

Bruce J, you think four hijacked airplanes and the USS York constitute one incident? Wow, you sounded so intelligent up until you said that...

Hamed, yes, some of the Al Qaeda suicide bombers were Iranian. Sorry, but it is true. Also, coalition and US forces are increasingly finding bomb- and IED-making materials that have been sourced back to Iran. Get your head out of the sand.

God bless America!

Answer 2

O.K. When was the last time we had a suicide bomber in America? I don't remember ever seeing one. If you include suicide pilots, then we have had ONE incident. I really don't understand why we should conduct our foriegn relations differently based on one isolated incident. Yes, terrorists are bad. Yes, we should fight terrorism. But I'm soooo tired of Americans making this the ONLY issue on the table. These things cost money. Why should we spend billions to catch a couple of bad guys? This constant stream of money flowing into our military and out of our country is CRUSHING our economy. We have some very pressing domestic issues that we choose to ignore. Instead, we want to chase after a couple of psychos halfway across the world.

This country has ALWAYS been anti-terrorist. We have NEVER condoned terrorism. Remember how Reagan dealt with it? He would send a few bombers in, and blow the heck out of a few installations. It worked wonders. We didn't need to spend a ton of money to do it, and it got the job done. I never thought I'd say this, but I wish our current Administration was more like Reagan's.

Answer 3

I think its a bit harsh!
Pakistan doesnt TRAIN SUICIDE BOMBERS! Yes, there is some unrest because of the fact that the afghan situation has led to many terrorists taking salvage in the western parts of Pakistan but that is being dealt with. Please rea more about the Wana conflict.
Please also bear in mind that Pakistan is one of the foremost partners and an integral member to the US War against Terrorism.

Answer 4

Of course it should, economically rather than military in my own opinion coz I do think too much blood has been spilled, innocent blood. The problem is that unless the leader changes, the United States are not going to do a single thing since they cannot take the risk of losing one of their only allies in the region.

Everybody should know that those Terrorists, in the first place, were funded by the United States during the 80s, in the cold war era. This is what happens when you deal with extremist groups.

Answer 5

i assume you have no longer observed that the Pakistani military is attacking (and defeating) the Taliban and the Taliban has sent in extra suicide bombers against Pakistan. So please clarify to me how the determination with the aid of the Pakistani government to attack the Taliban has something to do with President Obama as he does not administration the Pakistani government?

Answer 6

First of all, the statistic is wrong.

Second, our president said "your either with us or the terrorists." As long as Pakistan continues to denounce terrorism and offer help to the US in fighting the terrorists, we should not punish the country. Obviously the harder the Pakistani government pushes on Al Qaeda, the harder Al Qaeda is going to push back.

Answer 7

It does appear that drastic measures will eventually be necessary to convince Pakistan their patronage of terrorism will no longer be accepted.

Answer 8

you all know that all of terrorists are from akistan or suadi arabia
but you keep telling Iran that it is supporting terrorism
while not even one iranian suicide bomber has been found
i wonder why !

Answer 9

Than vote Obama !

Answer 10

Pakistan must be invaded because it is cuddling terrorists.