Job opening: a Chalabi or Curveball needed to justify war with Pakistan

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It seems the Times has discovered an unusually loquacious "Pakistani logistics tactician" who for some reason has spent the last six months spilling the beans on the Taliban's strategy to the leading newspaper of the American establishment. The anonymous 28-year-old guy from somewhere in Pakistan's tribal lands told a harrowing tale of the "workings and ambitions of the Taliban" as they prepare to defeat Obama's Afghan surge from their safe havens in Pakistan, then seize Islamabad's nuclear arsenal.

What's more, the "logistics tactician" has provided his American enemies with a ready-made, pre-positioned "justification" for the mass civilian slaughter that will inevitably accompany Obama's surge....

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Get Yglesias's views on this, stat!

[pounds head on desk]

It's difficult to have any rational policy discusssion when all the forms of communication are totally corrupt.

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi